Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] libxl: fix paths in capability string
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 04:50:53PM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
2015-01-06 16:12 GMT+00:00 Wei Liu <wei.liu2(a)citrix.com>:
> Currently libxl driver hardcodes some paths in its capability string,
> which might not be the correct paths.
>
> This patch introduces --with-libxl-prefix, so that user can specify the
> prefix used to build Xen tools. The default value is /usr/local which is
> the default --prefix for Xen tools.
>
> Change emualtor from qemu-dm to qemu-system-i386 because libxl (in Xen)
> use this as the default emulator.
>
> No need to check hostarch to determine whether to use lib or lib64
> anymore because we now always use lib.
>
Wouldn't then better to separate it in a different patch?
Also this make libvirt not compatible with former Xen versions. Is
this expected?
No. I don't want to break compatibility. However these strings are not
used in libxl driver so there's nothing to break.
I'm not very familiar with libvirt so I could be wrong. Corrections
welcome. :-/
Wei.