Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:50:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> I wasn't around for that summit presentation but for the record my
> personal view is that this is a bad idea.  dom0 host processes are
> much more fragile (much more vulnerable to failures induced both
> inside that process and from the rest of dom0) than a Xen domain.
> Ideally the proper functioning of guests would not depend on that kind
> of complexity.

Indeed. However, this is a fact now for HVM. So making it be true for PV
too isn't really the worst thing.

What needs to happen is to work out some way of making qemu restartable.
I have no idea how feasible that really is. (The same applies to all of
dom0, user and kernel space.)

regards
john

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