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[XenPPC] Re: [Libvir] libvirt not compatible with Xen-unstable hypercall
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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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