[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 05/11] customize: add support for pvvxsvc

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 12:42 +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > SUSE VMDP comes with a replacement for rhsrvany.exe named
> > pvvxsvc.exe.
> > Check for either one of them instead of only rhsrvany.
> 
> Does pvvxsvc do anything that rhsrvany doesn't?

I don't know if rhsrvany does it too, but that tool is also used as a
service to monitor the memory stats in the guest.

> Wouldn't it make sense to just use the latter instead?  AFAICS this
> shouldn't be a problem for you license-wise.

The thing is that we have it for a long time, it's already built with
our VMDP tools while we don't build rhsrvany at all.

> I don't have a problem with this patch, but I find it profitable to
> avoid proliferation of identical tools and consolidate the effort on
> maintaining a common toolset as far as the licensing and other
> non-technical limitations allow.

Not my decision... I'm using what we are providing to our customers ;)

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Cedric