On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 14:25 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Hi All,
I briefly mentioned this at an evening event during the KVM Forum / Xen Dev Summit, but the list is certainly a better place to discuss such a topic. What do folks think about finally removing the old, legacy, xend-based driver from the libvirt sources?
As little as it is worth, I'd like to send my +1 to this.
As for downstreams, I doubt anyone is interested in running the last several libvirt releases on an old Xen installition with xm/xend, let alone libvirt.git master. SUSE, which still supports Xen, has no interest in using a new libvirt on older (but still supported) SLES that uses the xm/xend toolstack. I struggle to find a good reason to keep any of the old cruft under src/xen/. I do think we should keep the xm/sexpr config parsing/formatting code src/xenconfig/ since it is useful for converting old xm and sexpr config to libvirt domXML.
I totally agree with this analysis of yours. And allow me to add that, for example, on Fedora 24, I have xen-4.6.4, which does not have xm/xend. And yet it appear I can install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-1.3.3.2-1.fc24.x86_64 which would be totally useless and, from a user perspective, very confusing. So, again, +1. Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)