From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [libvirt] Re: [PATCH V2] Add libxenlight driver Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:29:42 +0000 Message-ID: <20110224122942.GI2764@redhat.com> References: <1298429765-24170-1-git-send-email-jfehlig@novell.com> <19813.16732.570524.790762@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <4D664CE9.9060502@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D664CE9.9060502@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 02/23/2011 06:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > >Because for now you want to be able to have both drivers. Unless, > >perhaps, it's somehow possible to select between them at runtime for > >the same URI scheme ? > > The Xen driver is already using a multitude of "subdrivers" (query > xenstore, query the hypervisor, query xend, read directly from > /etc/xen or /var/lib/xend/domains). This is one of the primary reasons why we want the new driver to be completely separate. We want a clean break with the past so we can have a simple & easy to maintain standalone driver for xenlight. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|