Re: [fedora-virt] libxl and libvirt in Fedora (rawhide)

[M A Young]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jim Fehlig wrote:

>  For those not following in the bug, the libxl driver executes
>  '/usr/sbin/xend status' and refuses to load it xend is running.  The
>  problem here is that the status check causes xend to start!  I can't
>  reproduce the issue, so perhaps it is specific to the fedora packages. 
It is specific to the Fedora package. I traced it to the 
xen-initscript.patch file in the Fedora source. From xen-3.1.0-2.fc8 
onwards Fedora xend ignores the option passed to it and just does a start. 
It was from before I started doing things on the package, but idea seems 
to have been to strip out functions like stop, reload etc. and do them 
directly in the init script.

I don't think it is worth changing this much, but I think I will put back 
the status option to keep libvirt happy.

 	Michael Young

libxl and libvirt in Fedora (rawhide)

[Dario Faggioli]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 20:19 +0000, M A Young wrote: 
>  On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>  It is specific to the Fedora package. I traced it to the 
>  xen-initscript.patch file in the Fedora source. From xen-3.1.0-2.fc8 
>  onwards Fedora xend ignores the option passed to it and just does a start. 
>  
Oh... I see...

>  It was from before I started doing things on the package, but idea
> seems 
>  to have been to strip out functions like stop, reload etc. and do them 
>  directly in the init script.
>   
Ok.

>  I don't think it is worth changing this much, but I think I will
> put back 
>  the status option to keep libvirt happy.
>   
Well, yes, I think that makes sense. Not much value added in reworking
xend support now, given it's being deprecated, but if we can put things
in a way that the libvirt libxl driver is able to load, that would be
awesome. :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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