[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 0/7] tests/qemu: Add program for tracing and analyzing boot times.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 04:05:19PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Török Edwin wrote:
> > Thought to try booting a Xen PV domain for comparison, but AFAICT
> > libguestfs doesn't support LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=libvirt:xen:///
> 
> No, this isn't really going to work.  It's a bunch of work to support
> completely different hypervisors like Xen, even with libvirt helping.

BTW I didn't want to discourage you from running Xen.  It's probably
possible to get Xen working by modifying the XML generated by
src/launch-libvirt.c.  A good start would be to change the <domain
type=> so it doesn't hard code 'kvm' or 'qemu', but works out the
correct type to use from the capabilities.

An alternative is to add a new backend using libxc (or whatever is
Xen's API-du-jour).  An example of how to add a new backend is here:

  https://github.com/rwmjones/libguestfs/tree/lkl

Rich.

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