Re: [Xen-devel] xenstore documentation

[harry <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 14:56 +0200, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> (longing for the days when all one had to do was poke a few values in 
> /proc/xen)
> 
> On 10/4/05, harry <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Looking at the current code, it looks like 
> > > domainpath/backend/device_class/frontend_uuid/device_id/transaction_stuff_here
> > > for the back-end and and
> > > domainpath/device_id/transaction_stuff_here
> > > for the front-end.
> 
> Hmm why does the backend need to deal with the uuid, I thought that
> was solely for the tools? So to recap, I have to:
> 
> - introduce dom0 to xenstore, with prefix=/local/domain/0
> - mkdir /local/domain/0/backend
> - mkdir /local/domain/0/device

I doubt that mkdir will work.  I would expect that you would have to go
through xenstored to modify the store.  vm-tools contained a utility to
submit an arbitrary transaction to xenstored.

> 
> And that will trigger the blkback-probe? Sorry if I am sounding
> confused, but I am fairly confident this stuff is more complex than it
> needs to be.

Ouch, don't shoot the messenger.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jacob
> 
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