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

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:14:55 +0100
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Keir Fraser writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend 
configuration"):
> 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.

There are other reasons besides libvirt why we might want to write to
the old locations for a while too:  it will reduce the problems of
version skew between various components - for example, tools, and
hypervisor.

Does qemu-dm need to interact with this at all ?

Ian.

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