[oi-dev] rebuilding system/xvm/xvmstore ?

Thu Oct 19 19:49:32 UTC 2023

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 11:58, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> The source code was in the xvm gate, used for Sun's Xen port for OpenSolaris.
> I don't know if anyone kept a copy of that gate around - I don't see it on
> https://hg.openindiana.org/ .
>
> The package was created by converting the SVR4 package created from that gate
> to IPS using the old distro-import tool:
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-ips/blob/40deb36077c33ef6717ef5ddaf3b895e8b2ec1fd/src/util/distro-import/133/i386/system%3Axvm%3Axvmstore
>
> I suspect it should just be obsoleted/removed now if you're not running the
> Xen hypervisor from xVM, along with any other system/xvm/* packages.

I would definitely be inclined to remove and obsolete it.  There's
never enough time to get everything done, but the Xen bits in illumos
are ancient and on the path to eventual removal via IPD 23:

    https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0023/README.md

Cheers.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org