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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:09:49 +0100
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On 30/9/08 15:58, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Which guaranteed API would that be? These paths are private to the toolstack
>> implementation. Perhaps the only exception is the
> 
> Precisely the problem, there's absolutely no idea or indication what is
> and isn't private. Thus you get libvirt looking in places it maybe
> shouldn't, but how are they supposed to know?
> 
> I'm pretty sure this patch breaks libvirt again.

I don't really see why it would. Beyond the console-client-to-daemon
interface change (which we can make not depend on the /vm_path stuff) the
rest is changing things which I believe are internal to xend.

If libvirt is really going in at this private state, perhaps we could patch
xend so that it writes to the new locations *in addition to* the old
locations. It then has its own guaranteed-private and -consistent state,
while libvirt can still read from old locations.

 -- Keir



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