Re: [Xen-devel] mini-guest io emulation

["Mark Ryden" <markryde@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

 In this occasion, may I ask : what is the puprpse of the mini-os (under extras
in the Xen tree) ? What is its usages ?
Can soembody say 3-4 sentences about xen mini-os?
Mark

On 3/13/06, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 13 Mar 2006, at 05:04, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
>
> > For the "mini guest", I think it could be much easier if we
> > substantially strip down xenlinux rather than adding (eventually) a lot
> > of stuff to the current mini-os, mainly because we need probably a
> > multi-threaded run-time environment, scheduler, memory allocator, event
> > handling, drivers such as xenbus/netfront/blkfront, etc. At least, I
> > think we can use xenlinux as the development platform. For example,
> > implement the qemu-dm as a driver adding the infrastructure required
> > (e.g. small in-kernel glibc).
>
> This sounds sensible. At least it allows ioemu development in parallel
> with mini-os development.
>
>   -- Keir
>
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