Re: DOMU problem with vif

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost>]

El 29/01/15 a les 18.16, Manuel Bouyer ha escrit:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 05:54:30PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> xenbackendd should not be running if you are using xl, libxl will
>> already take care of launching the necessary hotplug scripts:
> 
> He his running Xen 4.1, where xm is the only safe way.

Ups, sorry for that, I got this mixed up with the 4.5 thread.

> 
>>
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/libxl/libxl_device.c;h=0f50d0475d2e3604f2c9e960d315e19ac9cbfde7;hb=HEAD#l971
>>
>> Upstream xencommons rc.d script doesn't launch xenbackendd any more:
>>
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/hotplug/NetBSD/rc.d/xencommons.in;h=db03f22ff23ccb3b071d23c1e298275eb436c8c2;hb=HEAD
>>
>> I will send a patch next week (if no one else beats me to it) to remove
>> xenbackendd from the Xen source since now xm/xend is also gone (which
> 
> Also, libxl can lauch the scripts, but can also leave this job to xenbackendd
> (run_hotplug_scripts=0 in xl.conf). 
> So please  leave xenbackendd for now, it can still be usefull.

Ack, as you wish. You can also mimic xenbackendd behaviour with xl by
using `xl devd`.

Roger.