Re: xend deprecation

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 04/09/13 17:33, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:34:30PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 16:18 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>>> <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:29:07AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 23:06 -0700, Matt Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:03:46AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 13:32 -0700, Matt Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>>> Live migration between a system running xend to a system that doesn't
>>>>>>>> support xend would be a nice-to-have. That probably means some support
>>>>>>>> for SXP parsing either in libxl or in some compatibility tool.
>>>>>>> This already works by using xl on the source side, e.g. a guest started
>>>>>>> with xend on 4.1 can be migrated with 4.1's xl to 4.2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-08/msg02191.html
>>>>>> xl doesn't run everywhere that we need it to.
>>>>> Details please, or we aren't going to be able to even think about how to
>>>>> solve this for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW You can also do a xend migration to e.g. 4.2 (using the xend whichis
>>>>> in 4.2) and the use 4.2's xl to do a localhost migrate or a second
>>>>> remote migrate to another 4.2 system.
>>>>>
>>>>> xend's deprecation has been on the cards, and widely known, for several
>>>>> releases now. It is time to quit stalling and start moving. I intend to
>>>>> post a patch deleting it as soon as 4.4 is out the door.
>>>> And I think I might have to lobby hard against removing it.
>> If by lobby you mean "step up to maintain" then please do.
> I can surely do that, but I would prefer to have the issues fixed.

You mean you prefer to have the xl issues fixed? I think we all do; so 
instead of lobbying hard to remove xend, you can lobby hard to get the 
outstanding issues fixed. :-)

  -George