Re: Xen3 update

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:21:00AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just commited some of my current work on Xen-3.0 support.
> > This include xenbus (the interface to xenstore) and a network frontend
> > driver. I also added a kernel config file (XEN3_U).
> >   
> 
> Manuel, thanks for all your work on this!  I do have a couple questions
> regarding the shipped kernel configs, though...
> 
> - since XENU and XEN3_U share most config information, shouldn't they
> both be created in terms of a file they include with all the common bits
> factored into a single file?  We've been having quite a proliferation of
> similar-but-not-quite-the-same configs, and it would be nice to only
> have one place to change things.

Sure, this is on my todo list. More things should be shared between the
XEN configs.

> 
> - (off topic for the current change, but still curious)  Since a domU
> can't run an X server, should the XENU configs have "options INSECURE"
> by default? 

INSECURE doesn't affect only the ability to run a X server. I think 
a default Xen system behavior should be as close as possible to a plain
i386 one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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