Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030431AbWALOwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:52:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030432AbWALOwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:52:20 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:45217 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030431AbWALOwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:52:20 -0500 Message-ID: <43C66D12.5090503@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:52:02 -0500 From: "Mike D. Day" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hansen CC: Greg KH , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, lkml Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes References: <43C53DA0.60704@us.ibm.com> <20060111230704.GA32558@kroah.com> <43C5A199.1080708@us.ibm.com> <20060112005710.GA2936@kroah.com> <43C5B59C.8050908@us.ibm.com> <1137057022.5397.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1137057022.5397.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 39 Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:49 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > > There are definitely things that are exceedingly helpful. However, > there are at least two other hypervisor-ish things that I can think of > which do the exact same kinds of things. Perhaps it would be helpful to > collaborate with them and produce a common interface. (uml, s390, maybe > some of the powerpc hypervisors) yes, that is a good idea. >>Can the domain be migrated to another physical host? >>What scheduler is Xen using (xen has plug-in >>schedulers)? All the actual information resides within the xen >>hypervisor, not the linux kernel. > > Other than debugging and curiosity, why are these things needed? Debugging is always a good reason :) but I'm specifically thinking of systems management tools, deployment of virtual machines, and migration. All of these attributes are important for tools that manage, deploy, or migrate. thanks, Mike -- Mike D. Day STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization IBM Linux Technology Center ncmike@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/