Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Lucina writes ("Re: RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore"): > > What about embedded platforms with no notion of block devices? The /etc should be provided as a RAM image then. I did this very successfully in a previous life in a resource-constrained embedded plat

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-14 Thread Martin Lucina
ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com said: > I wonder if this mechanism could be used for some or all of the things > that you're currently using xenstore for. Specifying which virtual > block devices to mount where, or what network configuration to use, > are things that other rump kernel runners would want

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Antti Kantee writes ("Re: RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore"): > user-visible != internally visible. We can for example build /etc into > the image as data and mount it as a memory file system at runtime or > symlink /etc/resolv.conf to /resolv.conf. I'd completely

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Martin Lucina wrote: >> > Following is the high-level description from the Git commit: >> >> Can you also post an example of the usage of your CLI tool? Actually, >> can you post a rough description of the entire process that a user would >> have to follow, i.e. c

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Antti Kantee
On 13/11/14 18:57, Martin Lucina wrote: Also, I'd prefer to call it 'stubetc' rather than 'etc' to make it clearer that it's not supposed to be used as a normal /etc. I'd prefer it to be completely hidden from the user. But sure, call it stubetc for now. This brings up another question; what

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Martin Lucina
po...@iki.fi said: > On 13/11/14 17:07, Martin Lucina wrote: > > po...@iki.fi said: > >> Actually, hmm, there's already an image for /etc available. I > >> understood from irc discussion that you needed slight modifications to > >> passwd for mathopd. In case your changes don't conflict with what

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Antti Kantee
On 13/11/14 17:07, Martin Lucina wrote: po...@iki.fi said: Actually, hmm, there's already an image for /etc available. I understood from irc discussion that you needed slight modifications to passwd for mathopd. In case your changes don't conflict with what's already up there, you could just u

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Martin Lucina
po...@iki.fi said: > Actually, hmm, there's already an image for /etc available. I > understood from irc discussion that you needed slight modifications to > passwd for mathopd. In case your changes don't conflict with what's > already up there, you could just update the existing downloadable

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Antti Kantee
On 13/11/14 15:46, Martin Lucina wrote: Following is the high-level description from the Git commit: Can you also post an example of the usage of your CLI tool? Actually, can you post a rough description of the entire process that a user would have to follow, i.e. compile, configure, run. Ru

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Martin Lucina
> > Following is the high-level description from the Git commit: > > Can you also post an example of the usage of your CLI tool? Actually, > can you post a rough description of the entire process that a user would > have to follow, i.e. compile, configure, run. Running "xr" with no parameters

Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Configuring rumprun-xen application stacks from Xenstore

2014-11-13 Thread Antti Kantee
On 13/11/14 11:22, Martin Lucina wrote: back in July there was some discussion on configuring rump kernel application stacks: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.rumpkernel.user/321 Some proposals were made, but no actual implementation work was done. In the mean time, I have implemented the simp