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. _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
