Re: [Xen-devel] xend deprecation

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:04:14AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
[...]
> There are issues that are stopping us from using it:
> 

I look at these xl items from time to time and see if I can fix them but
they come out a little bit more complex than I expect.

Xl will store DomU configs in its private storage location and retrievs
them as it see fit. This behavior is causing a series of issues.

For 'xl list -l', the detail info of a domain is retrieved from the
stored config file.

>  - No status in xl list -l when only dom0 is present.

This would not work because there is no config file for Dom0.

>  - 'xl list -l' says 'Domain name must be specified' even though the '-l'
>    is for 'Output all VM details'

Haven't traced this one down, but I presume this is caused by the same
thing.

>  - No console in xl list -l, so can't get  tty console port.

This would not work because apparently you cannot specify a tty in
DomU's config file -- that's allcoated by xenconsoled.

Along with the above issues, xl save/restored will only use the stored
config file which makes it impossible to persist any runtime info across
save/restore -- one significant defect is that VM's MAC address changes
every time unless it is specified in the original config file.

These issues are all connected in a way -- runtime info is not retrieved
/ updated / preserved. What I have in mind is that we might need to
introduce a mechanism to pull info from Xenstore, serialize /
deserialize config info / update stored config file when necessary.

Comments?

Wei.

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