Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:52:02 -0500 | From | "Mike D. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:49 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > > There are definitely things that are exceedingly helpful. However, > there are at least two other hypervisor-ish things that I can think of > which do the exact same kinds of things. Perhaps it would be helpful to > collaborate with them and produce a common interface. (uml, s390, maybe > some of the powerpc hypervisors)
yes, that is a good idea.
>>Can the domain be migrated to another physical host? >>What scheduler is Xen using (xen has plug-in >>schedulers)? All the actual information resides within the xen >>hypervisor, not the linux kernel. > > Other than debugging and curiosity, why are these things needed?
Debugging is always a good reason :) but I'm specifically thinking of systems management tools, deployment of virtual machines, and migration. All of these attributes are important for tools that manage, deploy, or migrate.
thanks,
Mike
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