On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +1000, Boyd Adamson wrote: > It seems that a similar thing may be of interest with Xen > domains. Perhaps an implementation where each domain is an instance of > svc:/system/xctl/domains could allow dependencies? e.g.: > > svc:/system/xctl/domains:domain-a > svc:/system/xctl/domains:domain-b
This is a somewhat obviously useful direction to go in, but not necessarily for ordering problems, as Nicholas quite rightly points out. The current implementation is careful to leave this option open, as is the current zones implementation. > On the other hand, I don't know how you determine from dom0 that a domU > domain has "started" completely. There's no good answer to that. What does "started completely" even mean? It entirely depends on what you're asking and why. In such circumstances, a feature-based test (even if it must be a polling loop) is still the best option. regards john
