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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] libxl stubdom API cleanup

from [Tim Deegan] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] libxl stubdom API cleanup
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:44:22 +0100
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen Devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vincent Hanquez <Vincent.Hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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At 11:59 +0100 on 09 Jul (1278676763), Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> I am not so sure about this: a stubdom is not just a normal PV guest, it
> also needs some special plumbings in xenstore.
> By design libxl clients are not required to know about xenstore,
> therefore we cannot have stubdoms entirely built by libxl clients.
> I think that working around this would be worse than Vincent's current
> patch series.

Fair enough.

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, XenServer Engineering
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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