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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:14:46 +0100</span><br><div>> From: agx@sigxcpu.org<br>> To: chillermillerlong@hotmail.com; 698093@bugs.debian.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#698093: libvirt-bin: Enable Xen libxl backend<br>> <br>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 07:05:12PM -0500, Xiao-Long Chen wrote:<br>> > Package: libvirt-bin<br>> > Version: 1.0.0-0ubuntu4ppa1~raring1<br>> <br>> Please don't file bugs against Ubuntu versions.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry about that. I should have read the guidelines for bug reporting in Debian.</div><div><br>> <br>> > Severity: normal<br>> > <br>> > Please enable the libxl backend for Xen in libvirt. Version 1.0.0 and above<br>> > support this backend. Xen is already deprecating the old xm/xend toolstack in<br>> > Xen 4.2 and is moving to the xl toolstack.<br>> <br>> It's not that simple. We need to offer a migration path for existing<br>> configurations. Do you want to work on that?<br>> Cheers,<br>> -- Guido<br>> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Would migration be necessary? As far as I know, libvirt will automatically</div><div>fall back <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">to the current xen driver if xend is running. It will only use xl if</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">xend is not </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">started.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Am I correct to assume that any existing libvirt configuration for xen would</span></div><div>have xend started automatically as it is required?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Xiao-Long Chen</div> </div></body>
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