RE: [Xen-devel] xend doesn't start with xen-staging tip (on ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04)

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Magenheimer writes ("RE: [Xen-devel] xend doesn't start with xen-staging 
tip (on ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04)"):
> IMHO, at an absolute minimum, breaking something that so many people
> have been dependent on for so long should at least result in
> some huge red flag being raised.  I understand there's no easy
> way to do this, but at least some 10-20 line message in xend.log
> in ALL CAPS SAYING DEFAULTS HAVE BEEN CHANGED AND YOU NEED TO
> DO THIS NOW TO GET PREVIOUS BEHAVIOR

I'm not sure we need to go quite this far but if you want an improved
error message that gets written to xend.log (or to stderr) when
xencommons is not run then I think the answer is for someone to ahead
and submit a patch.

> Sadly, my python ability is insufficient for this which is
> why I am otherwise cheering on the development of xl. ;-)

We are talking about xen-unstable here; users are expected to cope
with a certain amount of skew, trouble and instability.

In 4.1 we expect that xend will no longer be the default
configuration; we expect xl to be sufficiently stable and featureful
to be used as a dropin replacement for xm, for almost all current
xm/xend users.

Obviously we will make a good deal of noise about this in the
changelog, release notes, etc.

Ian.

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