[Fedora-xen] Xen Documentation

Emre ERENOGLU erenoglu at gmail.com
Fri May 30 08:29:52 UTC 2008


Hmm,

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Gastón Keller <gastonkeller at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Emre ERENOGLU <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gaston,
> >
> > It's true that some documentation is outdated. However, for the
> "/etc/xen"
> > isssue, my custom Xen 3.2 setup still stores ( and I do store there also)
> my
> > config files there.
> >
> > Maybe what you're saying is "Fedora Specific" which I could understand as
> > it's fedora mailing list.
>
> _The Fedora team has followed the Xensource model and begun to store
> all VM configuration details in a database, referred to as xenstore._
> Source:
> http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/07/fedora-7-xen-first-look/
>

OK, I didn't know that. However, I find this xenstore thing a bit
complicated.


> Then, you might be right. I interpreted it was a modification from
> Xen, not from Fedora (previously introduced by Xensource).


> So, what is the advantage behind this movement?


I think it's managegability.


>
> Thanks,
> Gaston
>
>  However, I never found the flexibility and control
> > in the Fedora way of Xen implementation (all those xml stuff etc.).  most
> > probably, I'm wrong :)
> >
> > Emre
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Gastón Keller <gastonkeller at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello, everybody. I have been struggling with Xen's documentation
> >> lately, not finding where to look for accurate and up-to-date info. I
> >> remember having read in this list months ago someone saying that the
> >> documentation was quite outdated. For example, the xm command _delete_
> >> does not appear in the man pages and many guides still do reference to
> >> the guest's config files being stored at /etc/xen (two days ago I
> >> discovered that now Xen works in a different way).
> >>
> >> My objective is not only to learn how to use Xen, but understand how
> >> it works. I'm doing my best looking for info in the net and going
> >> through docs in the Xen Wiki, but I might be missing something in my
> >> search. Therefore, I would really appreciate if someone could point me
> >> to some documentation I should read, or whatever else you could think
> >> of.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Gaston
> >>
> >> --
> >> La única verdad es la realidad.
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Emre
>
>
>
> --
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>



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Emre
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