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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 23:45:58 +0100
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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 02:06:40PM -0400, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:
[...]
> 
> * Wei Liu  Prognosis:   100 %
>     Adding missing 'xend' features in libxl
>     xl list -l on a dom0-only system
>     xl list -l doesn't contain tty console port
>     xl: passing more defaults in configuration in xl.conf
>     >  There are a number of options for which it might be useful to
>     >  pass a default in xl.conf.  For example, if we could have a
>     >  default "backend" parameter for vifs, then it would be easy to
>     >  switch back and forth between a backend in a driver domain and
>     >  a backend in dom0.
> 

If you're referring to my work on libxl, then there's misunderstanding.
My work is orthogonal to all these problems; however I can see the new
infrastructure might enable us to fix the 'xl list' problems in a more
sensible way.

Wei.