[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#668641: Please add a symlink /usr/lib/xen -> /usr/lib/xen-default

[Bastian Blank]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 03:15:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 01:51 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The only thing we need to fix the situation is:
> ln -s xen-default /usr/lib/xen
> and that's it! No need to write things in /usr. This is a one-line fix
> in your packaging!

No, it is not. /usr/lib/xen-default points to 4.0, while 4.1 is running.

> Could you explain this a bit more? Do you mean that, in a domU startup
> file, we should just write:
> kernel = "hvmloader"
> builder= "hvm"
> without the full path? Does this work as well with pygrub? Can I write:
> bootloader = "pygrub"

Yes. At least that is the theory.

> "we would like [Xen] 4.2 to define a stable API which downstream's can
> start to rely on not changing."

This does not help if the libs themself can't work with a wider set of
versioned hypervisor interfaces.

Bastian

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