[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: xcp-xapi fails to start

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 01/17/2012 06:33 PM, Mike McClurg wrote:
> I think that we put a line in the xcp-xapi init script that quit
> without error if it found a xend pid file. This means that to start
> xapi you need to either 1) edit /etc/init.d/xend so that xend is never
> actually run, or 2) first let xend start, and then do 'service xend
> stop' to kill xend, and then do a 'service xcp-xapi start'.
> 
> Neither of those is very attractive. Perhaps we could instead have the
> user create a /etc/default/xen file, which will contain a
> "TOOLSTACK=foo" line. If that file exists, and only if TOOLSTACK=xapi,
> we could then, within the xcp-xapi init script, check to see if xend
> is running, and if so, shut it down. This allows us to use xend as a
> common xen init script, but forces the user to explicitly say that
> they want to use xapi over xend.
> 
> I would feel better about killing xend from within the xcp-xapi init
> file if we were to it this way. Thoughts?


You should just do all the stuff, that you expect from xend, inside
xcp-xapi. xend is a separate stack which will interest some users.

Similarly, if xend is not really needed by xcp, I'd rather want to purge
it and only have xcp.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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