Re: [Xen-devel] libxl drivers for libvirt?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 14:03 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 24/10/12 19:11, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> >> * What kind of Xen support for libxl is in the libvirt development
> >> branch, and do you have an idea when full support for 4.2 (at least,
> >> including migration, suspend/resume, &c) might be available?
> > Nothing has changed in git master over what is available in 0.10.2, but
> > we are now starting to pick up this work.  Our priorities are to first
> > get the libxl driver compiling against 4.2 and all of the existing
> > functionality that works with 4.1 working with 4.2, followed by closing
> > the feature gap with the legacy xen driver, and finally closing the
> > feature gap with the qemu driver where it makes sense.  This is
> > obviously quite a bit of work and any help would be appreciated :).
> >
> > BTW, we don't have any motivation to add features to the 4.1 version of
> > the libvirt libxl driver.
> 
> That sounds like a good plan.  For 4.1, xend is still the default 
> toolstack, and libxl is a "tech preview"; for 4.2, xl is the default 
> toolstack, and (if I understand correctly) we're officially going to be 
> supporting the libxl interface in a backwards-compatible way from here 
> forward.
> 
> It seems to me that if you have trouble supporting both libxl 4.2 and 
> libxl 4.1, that it might be better just to drop 4.1 support and focus on 
> 4.2.  Ian Campbell / Jackson: Thoughts?

That's what I would do if I were them ;-)

Another option would be to fork into 4.1 and 4.2+ versions and to stop
adding new stuff to the 4.1 copy. That has its own downsides though.

Ian.


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