[Pkg-xen-devel] xendomains and hypervisor splitting

[Julien Danjou]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:03:29PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
> One of the first changes we might want to do is move away
> /etc/sysconfig/xendomains... We should put it either in /etc/default/xendomains
> (since it's an init script configuration) or /etc/xen/xendomains (since it's xen
> related)... Which one do you prefer?

/etc/default

> As for the way to do it I propose a dpatch file that changes the two files in
> the upstream tarball that actually nominate the path... It's easy and it works,
> but sure can be done in other ways, anything you would prefer?

No.

> Then we can go ahead splitting hypervisor and userspace... Preferences for the
> naming? Shall we keep the hypervisor as "xen" and call the rest "xen-userspace"?
> or "xen-hypervisor" and "xen-userspace" and have xen be a metapackage depending
> on both, for the sake of compatibility with the past?

xen-userspace is a bad name I think.
xen-manager or something like that (xen-tools is even better.. grrr).

xen or xen-hypervizo+metapackage, I don't really care.

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