[libvirt] [PATCH V2] Add libxenlight driver

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 23 11:09:07 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:57:45AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/23/2011 03:56 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> >Add a new xen driver based on libxenlight [1], which is the primary
> >toolstack starting with Xen 4.1.0.  The driver is stateful, runs
> >privileged only, and is accessed with libxl:/// URI.
> 
> Why not let the user keep xen:/// ?

The functionality available in the original driver vs the new driver
will not be entirely the same, so I think it is important to have
them be distinct to avoid any confusion on part of developers and/or
bug triagers and/or users.

Daniel
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