Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

[Ian Jackson]

Anthony Liguori writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into 
qemu"):
> I think it's more closely related to Xenite and Xenner.  Gerd: are you 
> planning on folding in domain creation?  Right now it appears to be a 
> helper launched after the domain creation.
...
> No, it's definitely for use with Xen (hypervisor).  But it's different 
> architecturally from how Xen uses QEMU in xen-unstable.

Xenner is an emulator for allowing Xen domUs to be booted without the
Xen hypervisor.

Xennite is an experimental replacement for the Xen userland management
stack in dom0: it moves more functionality from the Xen tools in dom0
into the qemu-dm process.  This is moving in almost the opposite
direction to Xen upstream is moving: we are moving qemu-dm into its
own tiny domain, so that the qemu code doesn't need to run as a
process in dom0; this has important security and scalability
advantages.

Ian.