Re: Re: tidy up requested

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:

>Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes:
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>>So I can not convince you to allow multiple versions of xen on one machine?
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>>People who are using 2.0 and porting to 3.0 (like me and newsham and
>>...) could sure use that setup!
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>The standard way to do that would be to support $(prefix) properly.
>So you end up with $(prefix)/lib/xen ..  $(prefix)/sbin $(prefix)/etc ...
>Like /opt/xen2/.... /opt/xen3/... etc.
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>The problem would be to make sure that all tools that read files
>or execute programs know about the prefix.
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Yeah, I've got a pretty good feel for what needs to change.  Not 
surprisingly, Xend will be the most pain here.  I think we can actually 
be smart though and avoid having to know the prefix at compile time.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>-Andi
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