[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH] xen init script: don't fail when being run in domU

[Ian Jackson]

Hans van Kranenburg writes ("[PATCH] xen init script: don't fail when being run in domU"):
> When installing xen-utils-V in a driver domain domU, it drags in
> xen-utils-common, which also contains the init script for xenstored and
> xenconsoled.

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Marek, it is actually possible to set a non-0000 uid for dom0.  I'm
afraid the right way to tell is indeed to mount /proc/xen and look for
control_d.

So if you really want to reduce the use of /proc/xen you could send
patches to Linux to advertise the relevant thing in a sane way in
/sys.

I did notice this difference:

dom0
/sys/hypervisor/properties/features:000028f0

domU
/sys/hypervisor/properties/features:000020f0

I suspect, without looking it up, thant 0x0800 is "control domain".
But, really, let us not go there...

Sorry,
Ian.