From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/19] ts-guest-start: Use guest_create Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:46:59 +0000 Message-ID: <1422449219.14124.14.camel@citrix.com> References: <1422282868.6342.13.camel@citrix.com> <1422282935-24292-18-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <21703.51506.133923.556940@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21703.51506.133923.556940@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 17:21 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH v3 18/19] ts-guest-start: Use guest_create"): > > I suppose it was intended to deal with toolstacks with a cfg format > > completely dissimilar to xm/xl's. I think if this arises in a future > > toolstack this functionality could be reintroduced pretty trivially > > via the toolstack abstraction which is added by this series. > > It was intended to deal with precisely that. Early versions of xl did > not understand xm config files as generated by Debian's > xen-create-image, so they had to be converted. I think you told me that last time too and I just forgot to update the changelog, sorry. I shall replace the first sentence with "This was intended to deal with toolstacks with a different cfg format (such as very early versions of xl) but is no longer relevant". Ian.