Re: [Xen-devel] Re: tidy up requested

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  
>
> > So I can not convince you to allow multiple versions of xen on one machine?
> >
> > People who are using 2.0 and porting to 3.0 (like me and newsham and
> > ...) could sure use that setup!
> >    
> The standard way to do that would be to support $(prefix) properly.
> So you end up with $(prefix)/lib/xen ..  $(prefix)/sbin $(prefix)/etc ...
> Like /opt/xen2/.... /opt/xen3/... etc.
>
> The problem would be to make sure that all tools that read files
> or execute programs know about the prefix.
>  
Yeah, I've got a pretty good feel for what needs to change.  Not 
surprisingly, Xend will be the most pain here.  I think we can actually 
be smart though and avoid having to know the prefix at compile time.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -Andi
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