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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: running multiple version of Xen on a single machine
- To: "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: "George Dunlap " <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:11:58 -0500
- Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hmm... would running your tests (with xend & friends) inside a chroot
be sufficient? I realize it's a bit of a pain to set one up, but once
set up, you should be able to switch from one set of tools to another
pretty quickly.
-George
On 12/6/06, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan Beulich wrote:
> With a limited number of physical machines and many distro versions to support
> I would find it really handy if there was a way to run multiple Xen versions
in
> parallel (one at a time obviously) on any such system. This implies that I
don't
> want to install Xen tools (as they would otherwise overwrite the distro's
original
> package), which in turn implies that there must not be absolute path names in
> any of the tools/scripts unless there is a way to override these.
>
> It would in my opinion be easiest if each affected tool determined where it
was
> run from,
Do you mean by examining CWD and argv[0]?
My fear would be that that would break a lot of things that use special
tools to launch daemons.
I suspect we need to move to a PREFIX model. Not sure the best way to
propagate something like that throughout Xen.
It's further complicated by the fact that Xend depends on the implicit
prefix in a number of places (to launch xenconsole,
xc_linux_{save,restore}, qemu-dm, etc.).
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
subtract its install location and use the remaining path as the
> pseudo-root to find everything else. Alternatively, a command line option
might
> be used, but I'd like auto detection much better.
>
> Taking care of PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PYTHONPATH in order to be able
> to run the tool(s) in the first place would obviously need to be left to the
> individual user, but can be easily done in a wrapper script.
>
> Opinions? Has anyone already done this in a different way?
>
> Jan
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