[Pkg-xen-devel] propossed 3.1 changes

[Bastian Blank]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:08:01PM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:07:50PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > I propose the following changes for 3.1:
> > - Rename source to xen-3. Upstream stripped one part of the version, so
> >   the next should be 3.2.
> to xen-3.1, then... right?

No, to xen-3.

> > - pygrub as extra package.
> > - Rename i386 to i386-nonpae
> > - Rename i386-pae to i386. PAE is upstream default now and pae images
> >   works with a 64bit hypervisor.
> 
> I agree with the changes, + quilt if it helps...

Okay.

> > We should think about supporting libvirt. It provides an AFAIK stable
> > interface on the unstable libxen interfaces. Maybe something like the
> > following will work:
> > - Add libxen-X.
> > - Build a libvirt against each of them.
> > - Set the directory with this lib in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xen-common if xen
> >   is running.
> > Or we drop the support to have more than one sort of utils installed.
> Isn't libxen now supposed to be stable? Anyway I agree on building it in 3.1...

libxen seems so. libxc, libxs not. Which one is used by libvirt?

Bastian

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