On 5/4/23 15:58, zithro wrote: > Hi, > > [ snipped for brevity, report summary: > XAPI daemon in domU tries to write to a non-existent xenstore node in > a non-XAPI dom0 ] > > On 12 Apr 2023 18:41, Yann Dirson wrote: >> Is there anything besides XAPI using this node, or the other data >> published by xe-daemon? > > On my vanilla Xen (ie. non-XAPI), I have no node about "balloon"-ing > in xenstore (either dom0 or domU nodes, but I'm not using ballooning > in both). > >> Maybe the original issue is just that there is no reason to have >> xe-guest-utilities installed in this setup? > > That's what I thought as I'm not using XAPI, so maybe the problem > should only be addressed to the truenas team ? I posted on their forum > but got no answer. > I killed the 'xe-daemon' in both setups without loss of functionality. > > My wild guess is that 'xe-daemon', 'xe-update-guest-attrs' and all > 'xenstore* commands' are leftovers from when Xen was working as a dom0 > under FreeBSD (why would a *domU* have them ?).
That would not be correct: xenstore* are useful in guests, should you want to read/write to the XenStore manually or from scripts; xe-deamon and xe-update-guest-attrs both come from xe-guest-utilities 6.x, which is really a domU tool as well, but is there to support XAPI in dom0. Best regards, -- Yann Dirson | Vates Platform Developer XCP-ng & Xen Orchestra - Vates solutions w: vates.tech | xcp-ng.org | xen-orchestra.com Yann Dirson | Vates Platform Developer XCP-ng & Xen Orchestra - Vates solutions w: vates.fr | xcp-ng.org | xen-orchestra.com
