libxenlight availability

libxenlight availability

[Andres Lagar Cavilla]

Hi Stefano, list
Libxenlight is looking quite promising. However, current xen-unstable 
still hasn't received the latest patches. I wonder how usable is 
libxenlight without those fixes. If I want to use it/hack on it *today*, 
where can I get hold of a reasonably updated version -- i.e your tree :)

Thanks,
Andres

Re: libxenlight availability

[Vincent Hanquez]

Andres Lagar Cavilla wrote:
> Hi Stefano, list
> Libxenlight is looking quite promising. However, current xen-unstable 
> still hasn't received the latest patches. I wonder how usable is 
> libxenlight without those fixes. If I want to use it/hack on it *today*, 
> where can I get hold of a reasonably updated version -- i.e your tree :)

Hi Andres,

without the latest patches, you can start basic hvm domains with 
libxenlight. however if you're going to hack on it, i suggest you apply 
the couple of patches (4 IIRC), already sent on the ML.

We could arrange to put a tree online i guess, that would simplify 
things for Keir to pull from it as well.

-- 
Vincent

Re: libxenlight availability

[Keir Fraser]

On 20/11/2009 09:27, "Vincent Hanquez" <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:

> without the latest patches, you can start basic hvm domains with
> libxenlight. however if you're going to hack on it, i suggest you apply
> the couple of patches (4 IIRC), already sent on the ML.
> 
> We could arrange to put a tree online i guess, that would simplify
> things for Keir to pull from it as well.

I'm happy to take patches for now. Things are just backed up because I'm at
Xen Summit Asia in Shanghai this week.

 -- Keir

Re: libxenlight availability

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Andres Lagar Cavilla wrote:
> Hi Stefano, list
> Libxenlight is looking quite promising. However, current xen-unstable 
> still hasn't received the latest patches. I wonder how usable is 
> libxenlight without those fixes. If I want to use it/hack on it *today*, 
> where can I get hold of a reasonably updated version -- i.e your tree :)
> 

I don't have a public tree with all the changes, but like Vincent wrote,
it should be fairly quick to create a temporary patchqueue on top of
xen-unstable and then apply the uncommitted patches in this order:

- my patch to make pv guests work
- IanJ logging patch
- IanJ osdeps patch
- IanJ device model patch
- my patch to fix the memory leaks

then you can start to make your changes and send them to the list.

Cheers,

Stefano