Re: [Xen-devel] Really really small xen0

["Mark A. Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  I was wondering if anyone has made a really minimal xen0 image. By this
> I mean an image that doesn't have much more than the kernel (f/e and b/e
> drivers linked in), and run from a crom or squashfs filesystem, and a
> minimal set of tools running in a busybox-like init process.

I did something similar for the restartable device drivers work in the OASIS 
paper.  I cut out everything I could from the kernel config and booted with a 
tiny ramdisk, containing only a very small init (which Keir wrote to be a few 
lines of assembler!).  This was a bit more minimal than you describe - 
basically no userspace at all ;-)

To run device drivers, the domain shouldn't need any user space at all.  Its 
runtime footprint was about 3megabytes.  There's currently no way to 
configure bridging / routing this way tho - we'd need to add some control 
interface messages.

HTH,
Mark


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