Hi David,

Thanks for your reply, that helps alot.  I was just wondering if you 
know anybody offhand that is working on PV IO drivers at the moment?

Cheers,
Christian

David Edmondson wrote:
> Christian Smith - Sun Microsystems - Dublin Ireland wrote:
>> I have been given the not so pleasant task of writing a windows 
>> driver that will allow information to be read and written to 
>> Xenstore.  I have no experience with this so if someone could point 
>> me in the right direction that would be great.
>
> The project team may well not be the best set of people to advise in 
> how to port things to Windows :-/
>
>> A couple of questions are:  How is the xenstore/xenbus stuff shared 
>> between VM's (I know about the cli's, is it shared through a memory 
>> location maybe?).
>
> There's an inter-domain protocol based on shared pages and an event 
> channel.
>
>> Will the whole xenbus or store have to be ported to windows?
>
> You'll need an implementation of the xenbus frontend interface, 
> together with a way to issue hypercalls.
>
> Many of these things are also required for PV IO drivers under 
> Windows, so getting together with someone producing those would be a 
> good idea.
>
> dme.

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