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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 01/31/2012 03:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 06:22 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> + Note that if you wish to use Xen with XCP (Xen Cloud Platform), then using
>> + xl is mandatory.
> 
> As I've said before I don't think this is correct. The correct value if
> you are using XCP is "xapi" or "xe" or however you decide to word it.
> 
> Ian.

When you choose "xm", then "xl" doesn't work. When you choose "xl", then
"xm" doesn't work.

Now, whatever the value of TOOLSTACK, we have "xe" that always work. So
there's no consistency, maybe we should make xe to fail if TOOLSTACK is
set to something else than xe?

I don't mind implementing a wrapper for xe though, which would do the
same thing as the wrappers we have for both xl and xe, and then package
the "real" xe binary in somewhere else. But then I see an issue. It
might well be possible to use xe only to remote-control an XCP server,
in which case Xen might not even be installed on the local computer. In
such case, xe shouldn't be set to fail, because of a wrong value of
TOOLSTACK.

What's your take on this? What should I do then? Thoughts?

Thomas