Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/13] xen: groundwork for xen support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:00:16AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/13] 
> xen: groundwork for xen support"):
> > There's no requirement from libvirt itself - just whatever infrastructure
> > libvirt is using. So just a message about XenD/xm would be sufficient.
> 
> Right, but I just wanted to avoid the situation where a naive user
> sees `not for xm/xend systems' and thinks `that's not me because I'm
> using libvirt'.

They could be right in that thinking though - if using libvirt's QEMU
backend, instead of XenD backend, then it'd be fine to launch VMs
manually. Only the presence of XenD places constraints on usage.

Regards,
Daniel
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