RE: [Xen-devel] xm-test domain creation delay

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > > Right, which is why I asked if this sort of thing would be 
> needed in a 
> > generic sense.
> 
> Yes, it would be nice for more general cases, but that of 
> course means controlling the guest environment, and that 
> would mean more interaction with distro-specific aspects than 
> I personally would like to take on at the moment.
> It's not scary when we're doing it for xm-test, because we do 
> control that environment, but doing it for general guests is 
> more fiddly.  However, I'm sure somebody somewhere will want 
> to know when the guest is actually booted, as opposed to 
> merely started, and writing to xenstore seems like a good way 
> to go about it.

It's arguable that having a irtual filesystem inplemented in the kernel
for accessing xenstore would be good. Ideally, it would need to support
mkdir and creating new files which is slightly tricky. Allowing
read/write of existing nodes should be straightforward building on sys
or proc.

Ian

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