Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] docs: Document control features the can be advertised by guests...

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 06.11.15 at 18:21, <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...via xenstore.
> 
> XenServer already makes use of ~/control/feature-suspend being written
> to advertise guest capability of responding to 'suspend' when written to
> ~/control/shutdown and, since they are derived from XenServer drivers,
> the Xen Project Windows PV drivers attempt to write this value. The write
> currently fails for libxl provisioned VMs because ~/control is read-only
> to the guest (only ~/control/shutdown is writable, for ackowledgement
> purposes).

If these can't be set by a guest with the current default toolstack
anyway, what's the point of documenting them (the more without
warning about that fact in the text being added)?

Jan


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