[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#698093: Bug#698093: libvirt-bin: Enable Xen libxl backend

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 02:08:28PM -0500, 小龙 陈 wrote:
[..snip..] 
> I've tried it in another distro, but I haven't tested it in Debian yet. I'll
> test it later today. But if you look at the source code:
> 
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/libxl/libxl_driver.c;h=a8c4cae0e509a09e76ea344e3c0826cea04bfd71;hb=HEAD#l971
> 
> On line 971, libvirt will run "/usr/sbin/xend status" to check if xend is
> running. If so, libxl falls back to xend.

Ahh...very good!

> 
> Of course, just because something is in the source doesn't mean it works
> correctly :) I'll test it to make sure.

At least if it doesn't work we know where to start fixing. Thanks for
checking!
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Cheers,
> Xiao-Long Chen
> 
> > > that any existing libvirt configuration for xen wouldhave xend started
> > > automatically as it is required?
> > No. Libvirt doesn't setup the hypervisor it "only" looks for available
> > ones.
> > Cheers,
> > -- Guido
> > 
> > > Cheers,Xiao-Long Chen