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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 28/40] xenner: libxc emu: evtchn
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 11/01/2010 05:08 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 11:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Okay, so does the same apply for xenstored?  Does it make more sense to
>> move that into the xenner kernel?
>
> I think no, because the backend devices do use xenstore, so they would 
> need a way to talk to the guest.

Yeah, I was thinking fw_cfg but that's only after not thinking too much 
about it so that may be naive.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   It's the same conceptually for the console, but in that case the 
> "way to talk to the guest" is the 8250A device model that already 
> exists.  In the case of xenstore it would be yet another protocol to 
> devise and scrutinize.
>
> Paolo