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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Console Daemon

To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Robert Read" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Console Daemon
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:32:33 +0100
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Read <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:30 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > What I was thinking is having the following layout in the store:
> > 
> > /domain/<uuid>/console/tty
> > /domain/<uuid>/console/limit
> > /domain/<uuid>/console/history
> 
> Interesting question.  None of this is actually useful to the 
> domain, although it's clearly related to the domain.
> 
> A better place might be:
> 
>       /tool/consoled/<uuid>/
> 
> I was thinking of a console rewrite which puts the list of 
> shared pages in /domain/<uuid>/console/.  I'll be looking at 
> this once the rest of the store stuff is merged (soon, at the 
> rate Christian is working).

Synchornize with Robert Read, who's working up a patch to move the
console onto it's own ring buffer. This will be set up by the domain
builder so we can get immediate start of day console access, rather than
being boot strapped via xenbus.

Thanks,
Ian

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