[Fedora-xen] Xen Documentation

[Dustin Henning]

Emre,
	As you may already know, I still use the config files in /etc/xen and don’t mess with the virsh stuff.  It all certainly worked fine in F7, and though I haven’t fully tested, it appears that it all works fine in F8 as well.  I use them for one, because I learned with them, and for two, because in the little time I have spent messing with the gui tools, I haven't found near as much control.  That isn't to say that more can be done with the old way, but instead to say that I can do more with the old way.  I don’t know if there are any plans to deprecate that stuff, but I hope that if there ever are, news makes the list before I end up on a version where I have no clue how to do anything!
	Dustin

From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Emre ERENOGLU
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 04:30
To: Gastón Keller
Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen Documentation

Hmm,
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Gastón Keller <gastonkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Emre ERENOGLU <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gaston,
>
> It's true that some documentation is outdated. However, for the "/etc/xen"
> isssue, my custom Xen 3.2 setup still stores ( and I do store there also) my
> config files there.
>
> Maybe what you're saying is "Fedora Specific" which I could understand as
> it's fedora mailing list.
_The Fedora team has followed the Xensource model and begun to store
all VM configuration details in a database, referred to as xenstore._
Source: http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/07/fedora-7-xen-first-look/

OK, I didn't know that. However, I find this xenstore thing a bit complicated.

Then, you might be right. I interpreted it was a modification from
Xen, not from Fedora (previously introduced by Xensource). 

So, what is the advantage behind this movement?

I think it's managegability. 


Thanks,
Gaston

 However, I never found the flexibility and control
> in the Fedora way of Xen implementation (all those xml stuff etc.).  most
> probably, I'm wrong :)
>
> Emre
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Gastón Keller <gastonkeller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everybody. I have been struggling with Xen's documentation
>> lately, not finding where to look for accurate and up-to-date info. I
>> remember having read in this list months ago someone saying that the
>> documentation was quite outdated. For example, the xm command _delete_
>> does not appear in the man pages and many guides still do reference to
>> the guest's config files being stored at /etc/xen (two days ago I
>> discovered that now Xen works in a different way).
>>
>> My objective is not only to learn how to use Xen, but understand how
>> it works. I'm doing my best looking for info in the net and going
>> through docs in the Xen Wiki, but I might be missing something in my
>> search. Therefore, I would really appreciate if someone could point me
>> to some documentation I should read, or whatever else you could think
>> of.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gaston
>>
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>
>
> --
> Emre


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