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Re: [Xen-devel] Static domain id's?

To: Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Static domain id's?
From: Tim Harris <tim.harris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:55:15 +0000
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Domain IDs are allocated within xen, not within xi_create.  

The purpose of DOMID is to hack around the resource assignments that
xenctl makes, telling it to assign the newly created domain the resources
that id 'DOMID' would have originally received.  Similarly, 'max domains'
should be seen as a way of indicating how many sets of these resources
(IP addresses, etc) can be assigned automatically.

As Ian and others have said in the past, we're currently thinking about
a new version of the control tools and so this situation may well change.
One likely approach will be to introduce a proper concept of domain
profiles.  

Cheers,

Tim






On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:27:36 -0500
Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Has there been any thought into allowing static domain id's?  It looks
> like the DOMID variable is there and would be a good way to set it,
> but it is ignored.  It looks like everything is set to accept a domain
> id except xi_create.  Also, the fact that it auto-increments negates
> the idea of the "max domains" option.  If someone sets max domains to
> a conservative number such as 10 and then they restart a number of
> domains they will quickly be over the domain limit.
> 
> If the incrementing domain id's is a feature and not a bug, what is
> the preferred method of management?  Ideally i'd like the static id's
> as I would assign each domain it's own id, put the id into the
> database with all the other information, and from there I can manage
> it in multiple ways.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> TekTonic
> 
> 
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