Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: allow an <emulator> to be selected in the domain config XML

On 01/05/13 09:46, Ian Campbell wrote: >I would suggest that libvirt+libxl expose the version as the "emulator" >option and not the path. Just leave the path as the default in the >normal case. You may also want to provide an extra >emulator-path-override tag/attribute/XML for advanced users, but that's >up to you. > >If you need to support upgrade from xend then you could perhaps treat ><emulator> values not in the set of valid LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION >string (currently "qemu-xen" and "qemu-xen-traditional") as a path to a >qemu-xen-traditional device model -- no xend user can possibly have been >using the new device model with xend. Or you could take the approach >that xl does and just warn. This would work for me: it doesn't seem too bad to consider "qemu-xen" and "qemu-xen-traditional" as special virtual paths. It's a useful observation that xend never supported the new device model. Jim: should I cook up patch v3? :-)