Re: [Xen-devel] PRIVCMD in HVM DomU

To:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] PRIVCMD in HVM DomU
From:	Srujan Kotikela <ksrujandas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:41:49 -0500
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Srujan Kotikela wrote:
> From: Srujan Kotikela <ksrujandas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PRIVCMD in HVM DomU
> To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 23:35 +0100, Srujan Kotikela wrote:
>
>
> > I installed 2.6.38.8 with CONFIG_XEN, CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM and
> > CONFIG_XENFS. Then I copied all the libraries (from /usr/include/xen*
> > and /usr/libxen*) from Dom0 to DomU. I still get the
> >
> > ERROR Internal error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command
> > interface (2 = No such file or directory)
> >
> > I checked the /proc/xen. There is no privcmd present there.
>
> Is anything present in that directory at all? Did you arrange for xenfs
> to be mounted? You will need CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS in order for the
> mount-point to be present.
>
> privcmd was exposed to domU in
> commit 9387377eb79a44f453fd27c3d00a2e5da587e369
> Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Oct 6 08:51:32 2010 -0700
>
> xen/privcmd: make privcmd visible in domU
> so it should be in v2.6.38.8.
>
> Ian.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS = y
> And there is nothing present in the /proc/xen directory.
>

try

mount -t xenfs xenfs /proc/xen

It worked. I was able to do a hypercall from the user-level. Thanks for your help.

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