[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 28/40] xenner: libxc emu: evtchn

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/01/2010 02:39 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 05:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > 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 don't know if it's Alex or Gerd who did the switch, but this version 
> of the code doesn't have the separate mini-libxc.  The code of the 
> mini-libxc is embedded in QEMU, just like xenstored, blkback and 
> netback.  See patch 31/40, which includes both the "mini xenstored" 
> and the "mini libxenstore".

Oh, I'm still missing some of it.  That's a curious choice.

What's the logic for duplicating xenstored/xenconsoled?  I understand 
blkback/netback.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> It's not clear where is xenconsoled, is the PV console functionality 
> missing in this version of xenner?
>
> Paolo