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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] docs: add misc/qemu-backends.txt
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460379849-27184-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> (raw)

Document the interface between qemu and libxl regarding backends
supported by qemu.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
v2: - replace variable Xenstore path parts (<xyz>) with bash-like syntax
      ($XYZ) as requested by Konrad Wilk
    - add remark about de-privileged qemu as requested by Stefano
      Stabellini
    - add comma as suggested by Andrew Cooper
---
 docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt

diff --git a/docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt b/docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8e1799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+In order to know whether qemu supports a specific backend type libxl
+needs a way to obtain this information.
+
+As each qemu instance owns a path (named $QEMU from now on) in
+Xenstore, the backend information is presented there. $QEMU is built
+from the domain id where the qemu instance is running $BACKEND_DOM,
+and the domain id of the target domain of the qemu process $DOMID:
+
+$QEMU = /local/domain/$BACKEND_DOM/device-model/$DOMID
+
+Before signalling qemu is running by writing "running" to $QEMU/state
+qemu will create a Xenstore node for each supported backend under
+$QEMU/backends with the backend type as name (e.g.  $QEMU/backends/qdisk
+for the qdisk backend). In case qemu is running de-privileged (not as
+user root) the backend nodes must be written before qemu is dropping
+privileges.
+
+libxl can assume a backend of a specific type $TYPE is supported if:
+- $QEMU/backends/$TYPE is existing in Xenstore
+- or $QEMU/backends is not existing and $TYPE is one of:
+  "console", "vkbd", "vfb", "qdisk", "qnic"
-- 
2.6.6


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             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-11 13:04 Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-04-11 13:38 ` [PATCH v2] docs: add misc/qemu-backends.txt Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 18:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-12 14:03 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-20 14:02   ` Wei Liu
2016-04-20 18:07     ` Wei Liu
2016-04-20 13:54 ` Juergen Gross

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