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Re: [Xen-devel] Error reporting capabilities for libxc

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Error reporting capabilities for libxc
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:18:22 +0100
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:28:37PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 26/9/06 12:45, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> So, I've prototyped a simple error reporting mechanism for libxc. The idea
> >> is we first define an enum for the broad classes of errors which can occur.
> > ...
> > 
> >> Any way, the upshot of all this work:
> >>   # xm create error
> >>   Using config file "error".
> >>   Error: [2, 'Kernel ELF architecture 3 does not match Xen architecture 
> >> 62']
> > 
> > IMHO this is sorely needed.  Any comments from XenSource people?
> 
> I'd agree something like this is necessary in the 3.0.4 timeframe. I'll let
> one of the guys more acquainted with xend comment in detail. There's also
> the question of how this will integrate with the proposed 'XenAPI'.

I don't anticipate any problems integrating with XenAPI - we've previously
discussed the need to enumerate a set of error codes for XenAPI operations
and the need to also pass back descriptive string of the problem so I should
think its a good fit

Regards,
Dan.
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