[libvirt] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH V2] Add libxenlight driver

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 12:29:42 UTC 2011


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
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