Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:37:49 -0500 | From | "Mike D. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs |
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Heiko Carstens wrote: >> You can also set the standard that any other hypervisor has to >> follow! :) > > I doubt that there is much that different hypervisors can share. > Why should all this be visible for user space anyway? What's the purpose?
In Xen at least, hypervisor management and control programs run in user space in a "privileged" domain (or virtual machine). Systems management agents in user space on the privileged domain need to know this information, and sysfs is a good place to expose it.
Mike
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