Yes, but I don't have the same flexibility of options in the libvirt implementation.
Emre On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:06:32PM -0400, Gast?n Keller wrote: > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Emre ERENOGLU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Gaston, > > > > > > It's true that some documentation is outdated. However, for the > "/etc/xen" > > > isssue, my custom Xen 3.2 setup still stores ( and I do store there > also) my > > > config files there. > > > > > > Maybe what you're saying is "Fedora Specific" which I could understand > as > > > it's fedora mailing list. > > > > _The Fedora team has followed the Xensource model and begun to store > > all VM configuration details in a database, referred to as xenstore._ > > No, xenstore only holds information about active VMs. The persistent VM > config > is managed by XenD itself, and stored in files under /var/lib/xend. > > > Source: > http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/07/fedora-7-xen-first-look/ > > > > Then, you might be right. I interpreted it was a modification from > > Xen, not from Fedora (previously introduced by Xensource). > > This was all implemented by upstream Xen. Libvirt probes for this > capability > in XenD and if it finds it, it will make use of it, since libvirt wants to > be able to manage inactive VMs too. Since Fedora 7 was the first to ship > this capability in Xen, it was the first release where libvirt would enable > this inactive domain management. > > > So, what is the advantage behind this movement? > > The key reason for this was to allow XenD the ability to manage inactive > domains. So all its APIs for modifying VM configs now work for running > and inactive VMs. This is impossible for XenD if using /etc/xen. This is > why 'xm list' won't show you configs stored in /etc/xen. > > Dan. > -- > |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/:| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org:| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- > http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/<http://search.cpan.org/%7Edanberr/>:| > |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 > :| > -- Emre
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