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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Virtual disk configuration, PV vs. emulated, backw

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Virtual disk configuration, PV vs. emulated, backward compatibility etc
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:50:45 +0100
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Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [RFC] Virtual disk configuration, PV vs. 
emulated, backward compatibility etc"):
> In an attempt to clean this up, or at least make the strange behaviour
> more explicit, I'd like to propose some extensions to the dXpY syntax
> supported by libxl such that the other existing ways of specifying
> devices become syntactic sugar for specific well defined configurations
> in the new syntax, whilst preserving backwards compatibility.

Urgh.  I don't like this at all.  I have a completely different
conceptual model.  I guess I'll have to write it up.

Ian.

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