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Re: [Xen-devel] Xend vnet support to be removed

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:20:47 -0000
"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Unless someone speaks up, Xend vnet support will be removed.  
> > It is broken, unused, and unloved (as far as I know).  This 
> > is the xm vnet-list, vnet-create, and vnet-delete commands, 
> > as well as all the Xend support behind that (XendVnet.py, 
> > SrvVnetDir.py, plus plumbing in xm/main.py and XendClient.py).
> 
> That's a shame, but unless someone steps up to maintain it then I'm
> agree it makes sense to pull it. 
> 
> We should certianly hide it from the usage message. Perhaps we need a
> special environment variable or command line option to un-hide broken or
> under-development features? I think this would be generally useful.

We'd appreciate this approach if it is not hard to do. vnet is a useful
technology, I'd hate to see it less accessible. 

Thanks,
Tim 


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