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RE: [Xen-devel] Dom0-DomU communication

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:53 -0500, Akshay Joglekar wrote:
> So, from all your inputs I understand that the XenStore is the best
> way for transferring small amounts of data, while network (through
> something like sockets) is good for file transfers. 
> 
> I was also wondering if there are is any convenient way of using
> shared memory (apart from XenStore) for file transfers. Like mapping
> memory pages from 1 domain to another?

Use of memory sharing between guests typically takes a dedicated driver
and device class in both domU and dom0. Sure you can write one. Not so
sure if you should :)

There's also XenFS, but I never tried it out.
Maybe that's another option you might want to look into.

Daniel


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