[Pkg-xen-devel] xendomains and hypervisor splitting

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 15:03 schrieb 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...

Steve Kamp is (one of) the responsible persons for that package. I were in 
some contact with him, because he also wrote some documentation how to 
install xen3 on debian systems.

see: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/320
and  http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/304

He want to support xen in debian in general and might be willing to rename his 
tools. I can contact him, if we really would like to use "xen-tools" 
ourselves.

> > 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?

then we can also use: xen-dom0-tools or something like this... But I don't 
know. For now my favourite names are: xen-tools and xen-utils, but I don't 
have a real problem with anything else, as long as it has "xen" in it's name.

> Guido

--Ralph

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