<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy T. Bouse [c]</b> <<a href="mailto:jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net">jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>>interessting... I didn't know something about this project till now.<br>><br>>But in the changelog the last xen version meantioned is 2.0.6. Even if some of<br>>the news said that is compatible to xen-unstable, it looks a bit like
<br>>vm-tools was not really in development for some time and we should check if<br>>it's really compatible to xen 3.0.1, because xen on the other side was very<br>>active in the last months.<br>></blockquote>
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It's my understanding that vm-tools was developed against unstable (at
the time, 3 now), and they backported to xen 2. They tend to be working
a lot more actively than their site shows, but since a lot of the team
was summer interns, it's possible things have slowed down. I'll post
our latest results, but we've used 0.1.9 with unstable quite
successfully.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>but neverless we should split hypervisor and userspace tools in our packages<br>
>and also might think about just recommed the userspace tools.<br>><br> The only thing to be worried about with doing recommends vs depends<br>is if the system can operate as expected without it. If it has to have
<br>that functionality then it needs to be a depends rather than recommends.<br>However if vm-tools were packaged as well (possibly fall within our<br>maintainence?) then we could simply make the dependency on<br>"xen-userspace | vm-tools" and the user could decide which they wanted
<br>to use to meet the dependency.<br><br> Regards,<br> Jeremy<br><br><br>
</blockquote></div>Yes, I've occasionally said "the system boots just
fine with hypervisor + dom0 kernel, but you can't start a domU unless
you write your own calls," and I know that's extreme. Anthony was very
keen on have vm-tools maintained as a debian package, if nobody objects
I'll check back with him and post replies here.<br>
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