Re: [Libvir] libvirt not compatible with Xen-unstable hypercall API ?

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.