[Pkg-xen-devel] Of historical interest only [signed]

[Jeremy T. Bouse [c]]

Ralph Passgang wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 18:33 schrieb Yvette Chanco:
>  
>
>>On 2/16/06, Guido Trotter <ultrotter at debian.org> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:32:43PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:28:58PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Sorry, I don't know what vmtools is, and I'm not sure about what you
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>mean by
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>"Life without xend", can someone explain a bit more, please?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>vmtools is a project of utilities for replace xend/xm command and so
>>>>on. I got an URL of the project somewhere, I did not manage to refind
>>>>it.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I see... Ok, then, even a reason more not to mandate the installation of
>>>xend/xm
>>>with the hypervisor... Let's split those out and just recommend them, for
>>>now!
>>>;)
>>>
>>>Guido
>>>      
>>>
>>Here's the url. Anthony Liguori (IBM) is the team lead, at least was the
>>last time I contacted them.
>>
>>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/vm-tools/
>>    
>>
>
>interessting... I didn't know something about this project till now.
>
>But in the changelog the last xen version meantioned is 2.0.6. Even if some of 
>the news said that is compatible to xen-unstable, it looks a bit like 
>vm-tools was not really in development for some time and we should check if 
>it's really compatible to xen 3.0.1, because xen on the other side was very 
>active in the last months.
>
>but neverless we should split hypervisor and userspace tools in our packages 
>and also might think about just recommed the userspace tools.
>
    The only thing to be worried about with doing recommends vs depends
is if the system can operate as expected without it. If it has to have
that functionality then it needs to be a depends rather than recommends.
However if vm-tools were packaged as well (possibly fall within our
maintainence?) then we could simply make the dependency on
"xen-userspace | vm-tools" and the user could decide which they wanted
to use to meet the dependency.

    Regards,
    Jeremy


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