RE: [Xen-users] How can I create another privileged domian?

["Ashit Kumar" <Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mats,
Thanks for the reply.

Mats wrote:
>>we could pass an entire SCSI controller (or other disk
>>controller) to the domain with the pci-hide/passthrough mechanism, and
let the domain handle it's own disk entirely.

Suppose I have a two SCSI storage Controllers as 
 14:05.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030
PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08)
 14:05.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030
PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08)
And I want to pass 14.05.0 to DomainX,
Now if I change the grub.conf with the kernel command line as:
 root=/dev/sda4 ro console=tty0 pciback.hide=(14.05.0)
Then will it work?
Also how do we ensure that to which Domain we are passing this SCSI
controller because we are not mentioning anywhere the domain info,in the
above line in the grub.conf?

Please help..
Thanks and regards
Ashit


-----Original Message-----
From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:51 PM
To: Prabhakar Chaganti; Ashit Kumar
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] How can I create another privileged domian?

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Prabhakar 
> Chaganti
> Sent: 19 March 2007 16:33
> To: Ashit Kumar
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How can I create another privileged domian?
> 
> So will there be two privileged domains (dom0 and domx) running at the

> same time?

In theory, you could have any number of privileged domains, just like
you can have multiple users with "root" privilege on a Linux (or admin
privs on Windows if you prefer). See below for practical limitation(s)
to this. 

>   
> 
> 
> On 3/19/07, Ashit Kumar < Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
> 
>       Hi, 
>       We know that Domain0 is the privileged domain.Now as per the Xen

> architecture we can make another DomainX (X>0) to be a privileged 
> domain.
> 
>       Now here are a few Questions: 
>       A) How can I make another Domain (apart from Domain0) as a
privileged 
> host?

At the moment, I don't think there's a way to set the flag to make a
domain priviliged, aside from the Dom0 startup (which is integral to the
startup of Xen. 

There is of course no reason to expect this limitation to last forever -
if there's a good reason to have multiple privileged domains, then I'm
sure it can be pretty easily achieved. 

>       B) As per the architecture this new privileged domain can manage

> other Domains.So Can it directly manage the drivers and can the 
> DomainX view the drivers of this newly created privileged domain?

Not sure what you're referring to here. Drivers are available for both
privileged and unprivileged domains. The difference is that privileged
domains are allowed to perform certain operations (such as directly
mapping other domains memory) that unprivileged domains are not allowed
to perform. 

As long as the domain stays within it's own memory space, it's
essentially alllowed to do whatever it likes, including using whatever
drivers the kernel and/or owner sees fit. Of course, most domains don't
have any REAL hardware to access, so many drivers that you would
normally find on a "real" system become meaningless in a system where
there is no real hardware for the driver to access (most drivers will
fail to install/load/initialize in this situation). 

Drivers that don't need direct access to hardware (file-system drivers
for example) are perfectly fine in such a system. 

The guest domain also needs drivers for the virtualized devices, in a
para-virtual world, that is the virtual network and disk drivers. In a
fully-virtual domain, disk-drive is a regular IDE driver, with an IDE
interface inside the device-model that translates the "virtual" disk
device into requests in Dom0 to read/write to the actual device that is
"behind" the virtual wall. 

> 
>       C) Volume Groups(VG) can be created over the raw storage devices
on 
> Domain0 and the other VM can access them through this Volume Group.Is 
> the same thing happens in the case of this newly created privileged 
> Domain too?

Volume groups (as in LVM) has nothing to do with Xen Domains at all. Of
course, normally, only Domain zero owns the physical disk/device that
you can (or would want to) create a volume group onto. But in theory,
you could probably create volume groups on top of a virtual disk that is
visible to the guest-domain. Also, assuming we have a para-virtual
domain, we could pass an entire SCSI controller (or other disk
controller) to the domain with the pci-hide/passthrough mechanism, and
let the domain handle it's own disk entirely.

Please explain to me, if I've misunderstood the meaning of Volume Groups
or in other ways not understood your question. 

--
Mats 
> 
>       Thanks and regards 
>       Ashit
> 
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