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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add vncviewer xm compatibility options the 'xl create' command



On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:43 +0000, Goncalo Gomes wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:50 +0000, Goncalo Gomes wrote:
> > > I've attached the preliminary patch to add vncviewer options to the 
> > > 'xl create'. It applies cleanly against c/s 4e1d091d10d8. All feedback 
> > > is welcome.
> > > 
> > > Goncalo
> > > 
> > > # HG changeset patch
> > > # User Goncalo Gomes <goncalo.gomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > # Date 1332257809 0
> > > # Node ID 46f8afe643dee8de2c592c65204567fbad657616
> > > # Parent  4e1d091d10d83130842170cd61f1194e5459f2aa
> > > Add vncviewer xm compatibility options the 'xl create' command
> > 
> > Thanks. Are these options actually compatible with "xm create"? Are 
> 
> I suppose so. Anything specifically that makes you think otherwise? 

I don't see -A or -V in xend but looking again I do see the long forms,
I guess that's fine.

> > you intending to also add the vncviewer option to the config file? 
> > (I think that was a feature of xm mentioned by the original 
> > requester of this functionality).
> 
> Do you mean having an option like vncviewer=1 in the config file which 
> would execute the vnc client automatically upon domain creation?  If 
> so, I think someone may already have implemented that, as I noticed it 
> worked for me, even without adding the said code, but I will do some 
> more testing around this just to be sure.

I can't see anything in xl which would do this, are you sure you don't
mean with xm?

> Do you have a pointer to the original request?

it was Jim Burns posting on xen-devel in February, bullet 3 in
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-02/msg01364.html

[...]
> > When you seeded dom_info with the necessary fields I expected that
> > create_domain would do this based on those fields, I think that is
> > better than doing it here.
> 
> So you are suggesting me to move this code inside the create_domain() 
> path?

Yes. This should make it trivial to support for xl restore too.

Ian.


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