Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for guest network address information

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 November 2015 12:00
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Keir (Xen.org); Ian Campbell; Tim
> (Xen.org); Ian Jackson; Jan Beulich
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for
> guest network address information
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, Paul Durrant wrote:
> 
> > This patch documents paths to allow a domain to advertise an interface
> > name, MAC (unicast and multicast) and IP (version 4 and 6) address
> > information.
> 
> How does the domU do that in practice?
> With some variant of xenstore-write or with the PV vif driver?

In the case of Windows, the IP helper is available to the XENVIF driver so it 
will do the xenstore writes using the XENBUS_STORE interface provided by the 
XENBUS driver.

> Last time I tried to use xenstore* commands in domU it was unable to use
> relative paths, which forced me to specify the domid value for the
> paths. Might be a usage error on my side, or just a bug in the xenstore
> commands.
> 

I've not had an issue with using relative paths in Windows so I guess it's an 
implementation issue in whatever frontend OS you are using.

  Paul

> 
> Olaf
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