Re: [Xen-users] Re: multiple disk images, how to?

[Fernando Maior <fernando.souto.maior@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/18/06, Andrew D. Ball <aball@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is an alternative to the Python scripts for configuring domU's --
> just using S-expressions (SXP's) directly.
>
> However, if this is perceived as a more "low-level" interface, I don't know
> how stable it's going to be across different releases of Xen.
>
> Running 'xm create --dryrun' on a Python domU configuration file will
> spit out a corresponding S-expression (SXP), and running 'xm create --config
> your_sxp' will create a domU based on an S-expression (SXP).
>
> It seems on the whole far better organized than the Python configuration
> files to me.  It also allows for comments (which begin with '#' and
> extend to the end of the line), so it's not as if it could not be
> feasible for use by first-time Xen users if it were well documented.
>
> Is anyone opposed to using S-expressions as a stable interface for
> domU configurations?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew D. Ball
> aball@xxxxxxxxxx

Andrew,

Good to know about xm create --dryrun command and its output.
Yet, I did not realize big differences between the two of them,
it seems to me they are roughly the same...

What is the gain?

--
Bye,
Fernando Maior
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