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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] new nomigrate config option

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] new nomigrate config option
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:54:49 +0100
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On 20/10/2009 08:43, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 23:11 +0100 on 19 Oct (1255993888), Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> The option persists into a save file
>> and is also communicated into the hypervisor, the latter
>> for the purposes of a to-be-added hypercall for communicating
>> to guests that migration is disallowed
> 
> Can you please use Xenstore for that?  There's no reason for the
> hypervisor to be involved, since all the enforcememnt is in the tools.

I suspect Dan wants to interrogate this flag from unprivileged domU
userspace, with no domU kernel modifications. Make of that what you will.
;-)

 -- Keir



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