[Libvir] libvirt not compatible with Xen-unstable hypercall API ?

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Hi, Daniel

Thank you for your description.
Now I understand libvirt policy and why code is complex.
Anyway I will track on this.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI


Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:27:23AM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> > Hi, Jerone.
> > 
> > Thank you for your info.
> > It needs to fix, I will fix this issue.
> > (I check up to xen-3.0.4 but for xen-3.0.5 is not yet.
> > The structure changes from xen-3.0.4 to xen-3.0.5.) 
> 
> Yes as Dan Berrange pointed out that's something in our TODO list.
> It's a good idea to start working on a patch if you have time for
> this, but note that I won't apply it until 3.0.5 is officially 
> released, in the past we have seen hypervisor call changes just
> before releases, so...
> 
> > But I hope xen_internal.c should switch libxc.
> > Any reason of libvirt stay on original code? 
> 
>   First libxc is GPL'ed and libvirt is LGPL'ed, if we relied on 
> libxc that would affect any program using libvirt from a licencing
> point of view, making it far less attractive in my opinion.
>   Second we aim at providing compatibility with any released version
> of the xen hypervisor, so when 3.0.5 is out we will need to adapt the
> code again and check the hypervisor_version (and subversion) and possibly
> add more switch cases to handle the new version.