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From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Opinions on removing the old,
 legacy libvirt Xen driver
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:41:49 +0100
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On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 14:25 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Hi All,
>=20
> I briefly mentioned this at an evening event during the KVM Forum /
> Xen Dev=C2=A0
> Summit, but the list is certainly a better place to discuss such a
> topic. What=C2=A0
> do folks think about finally removing the old, legacy, xend-based
> driver from=C2=A0
> the libvirt sources?
>=20
As little as it is worth, I'd like to send my +1 to this.

> As for downstreams, I doubt anyone is interested in running the last
> several=C2=A0
> libvirt releases on an old Xen installition with xm/xend, let alone
> libvirt.git=C2=A0
> master. SUSE, which still supports Xen, has no interest in using a
> new libvirt=C2=A0
> on older (but still supported) SLES that uses the xm/xend toolstack.
> I struggle=C2=A0
> to find a good reason to keep any of the old cruft under src/xen/. I
> do think we=C2=A0
> should keep the xm/sexpr config parsing/formatting code
> src/xenconfig/ since it=C2=A0
> is useful for converting old xm and sexpr config to libvirt domXML.
>=20
I totally agree with this analysis of yours.

And allow me to add that, for example, on Fedora 24, I have xen-4.6.4,
which does not have xm/xend.

And yet it appear I can install
libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-1.3.3.2-1.fc24.x86_64 which would be totally
useless and, from a user perspective, very confusing.

So, again, +1.

Regards,
Dario
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