--- ols_2007-anthony-2/harper/future_work.tex 2007-04-07 11:54:26.000000000 -0500 +++ ols_2007-anthony-2.new/harper/future_work.tex 2007-04-07 22:26:08.000000000 -0500 @@ -21,14 +21,13 @@ Xen's grant tables infrastructure is used for controlling how one guest shares pages with other domains. As with Xen's Domain 0, the QEMU Xen machine is also -capable of accessing all of the guests memory obviating the need to reproduce +capable of accessing all of the guests memory removing the need to reproduce grant-table-like functionality. -Xenstore represents a heirarchical data persistance layer much like that of -Linux's sysfs. \texttt{kvm-xen} would need to use Linux's sysfs to replicate -the tree structure and persistance of Xenstore. In Linux we can set up change -notifications (Xenstore watches) and replicate the data in the Xenstore format -as understood by Xenbus. +Xenstore is a general purpose heirarchical data persistance layer. Its +implementation relies on Linux notifier chains to trigger events with a +XenoLinux kernel. \texttt{kvm-xen} would rely on implementing a subset of +Xenstore functionality in the QEMU Xen machine. \subsection {SMP Guests}