From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Fehlig Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:07:17 -0600 Message-ID: <50626355.7080402@suse.com> References: <201209191918.35305.hahn@univention.de> <201209201340.52218.hahn@univention.de> <505B88A1.1070701@suse.com> <505C4A82.2040305@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <505C4A82.2040305@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org George Dunlap wrote: > On 20/09/12 22:20, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> Chun Yan Liu was working on a patch to implement migration in the >> libvirt libxl >> driver, but she wasn't able to finish tidying the patch before >> departing on >> maternity leave. She recently returned to work and I'd expect a >> refreshed patch >> soon - after working through her backlog. >> >> But why is libvirt integration listed as a Xen 4.3 feature? AFAIK, >> all of this >> work is in libvirt and really doesn't have much to do with the >> release of 4.3. > For one, as Ian said, we want xl/libxl to be the default toolstack in > 4.3; as soon as possible we want to remove xend. Good :). > > But from a broader perspective, the idea is for the Xen.org community > to be thinking strategically about the success of the Xen project as a > whole. Things like distro support and libvirt integration are > absolutely critical to Xen's success in the open-source ecosystem. So > while we don't have to do everything ourselves, we want to think about > what things need to be done, track them to make sure that *someone* > does them; and be prepared to pick them up ourselves if necessary. > And it just makes more sense to track everything on one list. > > Does that make sense? Yes, it does. I'm actually quite happy to hear this statement of support for the broader ecosystem! WRT libvirt support for libxl in Xen >= 4.2, SUSE will be contributing some work. Just today I had to disable the driver in our Factory libvirt builds where we now have Xen 4.2. This hack can't last for long. Regards, Jim