Re: [Xen-devel] Multiple priviliged domains

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

Neugebauer, Rolf wrote:

> Yes, but in 1.3 device drivers are still in Xen. In 2.0 device drivers
> are run in a guest OS (which was what the original poster was looking
> for). In order to boot dom0 in this model without physical device
> drivers it would need a *really big* initrd (as Mark said) because it
> would need to create other VMs from it to provide dom0 with virtual
> devices. I'm not sure at all if xend supports this sort of setting.
Yep, it seems I misunderstood the original poster's intention. I guess 
that in an ideal world every device would provide a Xen VM driver in its 
firmware, similar to how Open Firmware provides Forth drivers, if I 
understand that part correctly. But then there is the issue of how to 
upgrade drivers etc.
Btw. I remember some discussion about wrapping NDIS drivers as Xen 
driver domains, did anyone every try doing that?
Jacob


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