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

[Yvette Chanco]

On 2/16/06, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >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.
> >



It's my understanding that vm-tools was developed against unstable (at the
time, 3 now), and they backported to xen 2. They tend to be working a lot
more actively than their site shows, but since a lot of the team was summer
interns, it's possible things have slowed down. I'll post our latest
results, but we've used 0.1.9 with unstable quite successfully.

>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
>
>
> Yes, I've occasionally said "the system boots just fine with hypervisor +
dom0 kernel, but you can't start a domU unless you write your own calls,"
and I know that's extreme. Anthony was very keen on have vm-tools maintained
as a debian package, if nobody objects I'll check back with him and post
replies here.
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