On Mon Jul 12 2010 at 19:05:03 +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: > >> My initial step would be to have a block backend driver running in > >> userland, so I can make it run as a standalone server. Purpose is to > >> help diagnosing errors in a more graceful manner. I lost tremendous time > >> tracking a DoS issue between frontend and backend drivers for domain > >> migration, for one stupid reason: the backend caused a DoS to the rest > >> of the *dom0* kernel, without even being capable of breaking into ddb... > > > > Ok, now I'm confused again. If you want to make it run in dom0 userspace, > > what is your interest with the hypercall api? Or is that just the > > initial step? I thought you wanted multiple "dom0"s. > > Initial step.
Guess I forgot respond to this. What I wanted to say was that apart from some Makefiles, I'm not sure how much your initial step and final goal have in common implementation-wise.