Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Stefan de Konink writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV 
> segfault"):
> > But this isn't the case now at all, is it? I name xenstored; is the move 
> > that Samuel with minios takes a way to solve this?
> 
> xenstored is not critical to the run-time operation of PV domains.

It's critical enough: no suspend/resume, no device hotplug, etc.

> Without it you can't boot, add devices, etc. etc.  But you can (for
> example) shut down a PV domain cleanly.

Really, how? There's no-one to write the control/shutdown node etc.

regards
john

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