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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: use '-name' instead of deprecated '-domain-name' for device model



On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Wei Liu wrote:
>> commit 6c744543757f0769e5a8f49ab0d8a01538357fbb
>> Author: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Â Tue Jun 7 14:26:34 2011 +0800
>>
>> Â Â libxl: use '-name' instead of deprecated '-domain-name' for device model.
>>
>> Â Â This unifies upstream qemu and Xen's qemu-dm startup option.
>>
>> Â Â 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,
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â"-d", libxl__sprintf(gc, "%d", info->domid), NULL);
>>
>> Â Â Âif (info->dom_name)
>> - Â Â Â Âflexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-domain-name", info->dom_name, NULL);
>> + Â Â Â Âflexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-name", info->dom_name, NULL);
>>
>> Â Â Âif (info->vnc) {
>> Â Â Â Â Âchar *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, the device_model_{override,version} are not working for pv now.
So I consider this patch a workaround for using upstream qemu as pure
pv backend.

I'm still waiting for IanJ's re-factoring of libxl. Hope that could
get a better implementation.

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