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Re: [Xen-devel] Rebooting domain0 independent of other domains

To: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Rebooting domain0 independent of other domains
From: Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:11:08 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:58 +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Are there any plans to be able to reboot domain0 without affecting other
> > running domains or is this not possible due to how Xen was
> > architectured?
> 
> Something like this should be possible after some coding - it won't work 
> currently.  Of course, the other domains would lose network and disk services 
> unless they were being provided by driver domains other than dom0.
> 
> It would be kinda neat if you could do kernel upgrades, etc. in dom0 without 
> necessarily having to reboot the rest of the machine.

That's what I was thinking... upgrade dom0 without affecting the other
running domains.  Good point on losing disk and network services
though... that makes it a bit trickier.  

It's nothing major right now, just an idea I had thought of.




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