Re: [Xen-devel] Xend vnet support to be removed

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:33:33AM -0600, Tim Freeman wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:20:47 -0000
> "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Unless someone speaks up, Xend vnet support will be removed.  
> > > It is broken, unused, and unloved (as far as I know).  This 
> > > is the xm vnet-list, vnet-create, and vnet-delete commands, 
> > > as well as all the Xend support behind that (XendVnet.py, 
> > > SrvVnetDir.py, plus plumbing in xm/main.py and XendClient.py).
> > 
> > That's a shame, but unless someone steps up to maintain it then I'm
> > agree it makes sense to pull it. 
> > 
> > We should certianly hide it from the usage message. Perhaps we need a
> > special environment variable or command line option to un-hide broken or
> > under-development features? I think this would be generally useful.
> 
> We'd appreciate this approach if it is not hard to do. vnet is a useful
> technology, I'd hate to see it less accessible. 

Well if you are using it, then it can stay in there, by all means.  If you
wanted to volunteer to document it and fix it if it needs fixing, then that
would be even better ;-)

Thanks,

Ewan.

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