[Pkg-xen-devel] Of historical interest only [signed]

[Guido Trotter]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:01:38AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:

Hi!

> >interessting... I didn't know something about this project till now.
> >
> >But in the changelog the last xen version meantioned is 2.0.6. Even if some of 
> >the news said that is compatible to xen-unstable, it looks a bit like 
> >vm-tools was not really in development for some time and we should check if 
> >it's really compatible to xen 3.0.1, because xen on the other side was very 
> >active in the last months.
> >

I agree with the fact that it doesn't seem very developed... On the other hand
debian-xen does neither, for now, unfortunately! (that is, till we finish and
upload) :D


> >but neverless we should split hypervisor and userspace tools in our packages 
> >and also might think about just recommed the userspace tools.
> >
>     The only thing to be worried about with doing recommends vs depends
> is if the system can operate as expected without it. If it has to have
> that functionality then it needs to be a depends rather than recommends.
> However if vm-tools were packaged as well (possibly fall within our
> maintainence?) then we could simply make the dependency on
> "xen-userspace | vm-tools" and the user could decide which they wanted
> to use to meet the dependency.
> 

Well, to work seriously (that is, to start guest domains) xen needs some kind of
userspace, so we'd better require it... We could just depend on " xend |
xen-userspace " (names are fake, for now) and make xend provide "xen-userspace"
so any other package that wants to substitute xend/xm to manage the xen system
can just provide "xen-userspace" without changes on our side!

Guido