Re: [Xen-devel] Renaming p9 to p9s in libxl idl

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08/11/2017 05:45 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> > On 08/08/2017 09:09 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > Ian and Stefano
> > >
> > > Oleksandr discovered that the p9fs array in libxl_domain_config is name
> > > p9 instead of p9s. This causes problem for his work to rework device
> > > framework.
> > >
> > > Given that p9fs was added only during last release and the only known
> > > external toolstack libvirt can't possibility use that, maybe we can
> > > rename p9 to p9s. Opinions?
> > ATM the libvirt libxl driver doesn't use it, but it could by supporting
> > libvirt's <filesystem> device
> >
> > http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFilesystems
> I think that means all the parameters go directly to QEMU. Without
> proper plumbing via libxl driver there won't be anything in the xenstore
> hence it isn't useable by Xen guest, right?
I'm not sure why they have to go directly to QEMU. My naive thinking was to map 
the <filesystem> XML elements/attributes to libxl_device_p9 struct. E.g. 
/domain/devices/filesystem/source@file would map to libxl_device_p9->path, etc.
Regards,
Jim



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