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[Xen-devel] Re: tidy up requested

To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: tidy up requested
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: 11 Aug 2005 01:08:04 +0200
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> So I can not convince you to allow multiple versions of xen on one machine?
> 
> People who are using 2.0 and porting to 3.0 (like me and newsham and
> ...) could sure use that setup!

The standard way to do that would be to support $(prefix) properly.
So you end up with $(prefix)/lib/xen ..  $(prefix)/sbin $(prefix)/etc ...
Like /opt/xen2/.... /opt/xen3/... etc.

The problem would be to make sure that all tools that read files
or execute programs know about the prefix.

-Andi

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