Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 4/6] libxl: allow creation of domains with a specified or random domid

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Durrant writes ("[PATCH v6 4/6] libxl: allow creation of domains with a 
specified or random domid"):
> This patch adds a 'domid' field to libxl_domain_create_info and then
> modifies libxl__domain_make() to have Xen use that value if it is valid.
> If the domid value is invalid then Xen will choose the domid, as before,
> unless the value is the new special RANDOM_DOMID value added to the API.
> This value instructs libxl__domain_make() to choose a random domid value
> for Xen to use.
> 
> If Xen determines that a domid specified to or chosen by
> libxl__domain_make() co-incides with an existing domain then the create
> operation will fail. In this case, if RANDOM_DOMID was specified to
> libxl__domain_make() then a new random value will be chosen and the create
> operation will be re-tried, otherwise libxl__domain_make() will fail.
> 
> After Xen has successfully created a new domain, libxl__domain_make() will
> check whether its domid matches any recently used domid values. If it does
> then the domain will be destroyed. If the domid used in creation was
> specified to libxl__domain_make() then it will fail at this point,
> otherwise the create operation will be re-tried with either a new random
> or Xen-selected domid value.

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.  The logic seems a lot clearer now.

Ian.

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