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

[Mike McClurg]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Anders Kaseorg <andersk at mit.edu> wrote:
> If I might make a proposal, I think things would be simpler for everyone if
> we put the separate toolstacks into separate conflicting packages. Then we
> don’t have to deal with /etc/defaults or debconf or user configuration at
> all, and each toolstack would know to shut itself down when it got
> uninstalled, so that toolstacks don’t need to worry at runtime about other
> toolstacks being enabled.
>

This might be the way to go when Xen 4.2 is released, when xend will
be formally deprecated. It might then be a good time to split xend
into a separate binary package from the rest of Xen, which could then
use xl by default.

I can also see that being difficult to implement in a way that won't
break existing installations on upgrade. Also, it would be nice to
allow the various toolstacks to coexist on the filesystem, and be able
to switch in between them without having to uninstall one in place of
the other.

Mike