[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Permission for xenstore operation on HVM
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 10:16 +0000, Alessandro Salvatori wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 01:45, Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In HVM mode You allow write to /local/domain/$DOMID/data > > do you mean that in PV mode one can write to vm-data, and in HVM mode > one can write to data? With the xl toolstack it is "data" in both cases. I can't speak for other toolstacks but it would be nice if they were all consistent... > in fact in my first message that never went through I had two > theories, and I chopped the first one because I was thinking it > sounded too ridiculous of me to say :) > > > theory 1: for HVM guests Xen gives the ownership of the xenstore variables > > to dom0 instead of the domU that is running the guest. My humble guess is > > that Xen assumes that HVM guests are gonna be hypervisor agnostic and > > not gonna be using xenstore. Of course this assumption breaks when you > > have PV-HVM guests. > > of course, if that is the case, then at provisioning time one wouldn't > know an HVM guest is gonna actually become a PV-HVM... so it will > still be treated as an HVM guest... sigh... > > now, I wonder: can one get the data directory through XAPI though? If you are running xapi then xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the correct place to ask for help. Ian. > > thanks! > -Alessandro- > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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