On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 20:19 +0000, M A Young wrote: 
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> It is specific to the Fedora package. I traced it to the 
> xen-initscript.patch file in the Fedora source. From xen-3.1.0-2.fc8 
> onwards Fedora xend ignores the option passed to it and just does a start. 
>
Oh... I see...

> It was from before I started doing things on the package, but idea seems 
> to have been to strip out functions like stop, reload etc. and do them 
> directly in the init script.
> 
Ok.

> I don't think it is worth changing this much, but I think I will put back 
> the status option to keep libvirt happy.
> 
Well, yes, I think that makes sense. Not much value added in reworking
xend support now, given it's being deprecated, but if we can put things
in a way that the libvirt libxl driver is able to load, that would be
awesome. :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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