[Pkg-xen-devel] xendomains and hypervisor splitting

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:40:20PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

> I think we should make "xen" the metapackage that installs userspace + 
> hypervisor. This would help, because xen2 users are used to just install 
> "xen" for all their needs.
> 

Ok, let's go this way, then!

> xen-hypervisor is a good name for the hypervisor package, but what about the 
> userspace stuff? I agree that xen-tools would be the best name, but as 
> already noticed, this name is not free anymore. so maybe: xen-utils ?
> 

xen-utils is fine for me... the only issue is that it gets a bit confusing
between xen-tools and xen-utils! :/ Someone could try to ask kindly if they want
to call them xen-scripts or xen-debian-tools or something that doesn't seem part
of xen itself, but still has the xen name in it so it's easy to be found...

> and what about development headers and so on? xen-utils-dev or still 
> libxen-dev?
> 

It seems to me we're just splitting xen into xen-hypervisor + xen-utils(or
whatever), leaving a xen metapackage... So we should leave libxen3.0,
libxen-dev and libxen-python there (and of course, xen-docs too...)

Just a thought, how about calling it xen-admin or xen-admin-tools since they are
only useful to administer a virtualized system, from inside the domain0?

Guido