RE: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable on OL6 (RHEL6 clone) problems

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 19:25 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: 
> the whole thing didn't work properly if you wanted to do anything
> unusual, in which case the admin would end up fighting the nightmarish
> Xen bootup scripts and no doubt cursing our name!

Agreed, the debugability of the previous solution was basically nil so,
while it was ok if it it worked, it actually required a far greater
level of arcane knowledge (worse: Xen specific arcane knowledge) than
the new scheme to fix when it didn't.

> Of course we are trying to make Xen easier to install and use.  I'm
> personally very conscious of the barriers to casual deployment of Xen.

Making casual deployment as easy as we are able to is certainly
extremely important and something we should all be mindful of.

Another aspect we should bear in mind is that one of the best ways we
can support end users (particularly the less savvy or those with a
preference for a stable distro) is by making it as easy as possible for
downstream distros to do a first rate job of supporting Xen themselves
by making it easy to create packages that are well integrated with their
distro and providing the support which they need to achieve this etc.

Ian.


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