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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/18] lib{xc,
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:37 +0000
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On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:35 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Daniel De Graaf writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 06/18] lib{xc, xl}: Seed grant tables with xenstore and console grants"):
> > I was suggesting storing the domain name in the config file, which wouldn't
> > be a runtime value. However, I think it should be possible to place this in
> > xenstore, and that will probably be better as that's where you would expect
> > things like this to be.
> 
> The registry of domain names is in xenstore, so that's not going to
> work :-).

This info is used for starting subsequent domains not the xenstore
domain itself so I think it will.

Whichever process starts the xenstore stubdom watis for it to initialise
and then writes the necessary parameters to xenstore. Future toolstack
invocations can then read it back. The toolstack doesn't need to know
where the xenstore is running since it just uses /proc/xen/xenbus.

Ian.