On 11/01/2010 10:49 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01.11.2010, at 11:45, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 11/01/2010 10:01 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
Xenner emulates parts of libxc, so we can not use the real xen infrastructure
when running xen pv guests without xen.
This patch adds support for event channel communication.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<address@hidden>
Has anyone checked with the Xen folks about supporting this type of
functionality in libxc directly?
The issue I have with libxc is that it goes orthogonal to the qemu
infrastructure way of doing things. If we base on libxc, we will never be able
to do cross-architecture execution of xen pv guests. Do we really want to go
that way?
IIUC, this is a mini-libxc that you enable by mucking with LD_LIBRARY_PATH such
that you can run things like xenstored unmodified. What I'm really asking is
whether there has been a discussion about a more pleasant way to do this that
the Xen guys would feel comfortable with.
I'd feel a little weird if someone was replacing a part of QEMU via
LD_LIBRARY_PATH trickery. It's better to try to work out a proper solution
with the upstream community than to do trickery.
I'm not entirely opposed to this if the Xen guys say they don't want anything
to do with Xenner, but we should have the discussion at least.