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["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:43:13AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
>  c.) No way to modify contents of the service after instance launch.
>      OK, I said 2 features, and really this one is wishlist.  If we had an
>      arbitrary key-value store that was available, the user could interact
>      with the guest using this service.  It'd have to be poll-based, but a
>      in-guest hypervisor could watch for creation and deletion of keys.
>      Potentially, the MD might be RW from inside guest, meaning it could
>      even convey information back.

Sounds like xenstore ...

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat