On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:16 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:52:03PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > commit 6c744543757f0769e5a8f49ab0d8a01538357fbb
> > > Author: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Tue Jun 7 14:26:34 2011 +0800
> > >
> > > libxl: use '-name' instead of deprecated '-domain-name' for device
> > > model.
> > >
> > > This unifies upstream qemu and Xen's qemu-dm startup option.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> > > index 47a51c8..d53a20d 100644
> > > --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> > > +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> > > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static char **
> > > libxl__build_device_model_args_old(libxl__gc *gc,
> > > "-d", libxl__sprintf(gc, "%d", info->domid), NULL);
> > >
> > > if (info->dom_name)
> > > - flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-domain-name", info->dom_name, NULL);
> > > + flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-name", info->dom_name, NULL);
> > >
> > > if (info->vnc) {
> > > char *vncarg;
> >
> > considering that libxl__build_device_model_args_old is only meant to be
> > used with the old qemu-xen that we are not going to upgrade anymore, I
> > don't think it is worth to try to update its command line options.
>
> Well, device_model_{override,version} are not working for pure pv.
I think it would be preferable to tackle this directly rather than
working around it.
> I
> consider this patch a workaround for using upstream qemu as pure pv
> backend.
>
> I hope that IanJ's re-factoring of libxl will get a better
> implementation of this.
I wasn't aware of any intention (by IanJ or otherwise) to refactor
anything in this particular area.
Ian.
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