Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Upgrade vtpmd to berlios version 0.7.4

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Matthew Fioravante
<matthew.fioravante@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know if there is anyone who would want to still use vtpms as
> processes when the stub domains are now available. Security research
> people like the domain model because it guarantees a better separation
> of components guaranteed by the hypervisor and doesn't have to trust the
> dom0 OS.
>
> If we got rid of the process and hybrid model, then the
> tools/vtpm_manager code that is still used could be moved into the
> vtpmmgrdom stubdom codebase. tools/vtpm could be completely removed
> along with the --enable-vtpm stuff in the configure script and the cmake
> dependency.

I haven't had a chance to look at your patches in detail (because the
few I've looked at have whitespace damage that Ian mentioned before),
but I as long as the user interface (via xl, config files, &c) is the
same, or comparable, I don't see any reason not to move entirely over
the stubdom model; especially if the process or hybrid models are not
being tested or maintained.

 -George

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