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[Chris Behrens <chris.behrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, that sounds good to me.   Then, going back to the original path suggestions, we had:

/tools/guest_agent/unix for the main unix agent code base.  Subdirectories could exist under there for different communication modules (xenstore, etc)
/tools/guest_agent/windows/xen_server for the Windows XenServer specific agent

Objections or better suggestions?

- Chris


On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

> Agreed.  By default lets put things into nova because it makes development and visibility much easier.  As eric mentioned, we can always break it out later.
> 
> Vish
> 
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Eric Day wrote:
> 
>> We can always start this as part of nova for developer convenience
>> until the guest agent APIs stabilize. It's trivial to break this out
>> into another project later on once other options start to emerge.
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:51:40PM +0000, Chris Behrens wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:53 AM, Paul Voccio wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On one hand, I agree it could be separate. This is one of the reasons why
>>>> we've waited to push it. Unfortunately, they are so tightly coupled
>>>> because it is going to be directly tied to bugfixes in the compute node
>>>> that the project leads for each are going to have to keep up with revs of
>>>> each agent against a rev of nova. It would seem like the issues between
>>>> them would be easier to track if they were all contained in the same
>>>> project. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I'm mixed.  I tend to agree with the arguments for keeping it a separate project.  It makes sense.  At the same time, some sort of agent will be a requirement for configuring a guest in a non-DHCP based environment.  And as you mention, we'll need to keep everything in sync, so it feels like it should be a part of nova.  :-/
>>> 
>>> Anyway, since there seems to be a number of opinions that it should be separate, I can do so.  We'll just need good documentation on what revs of nova work with what revs of agents.
>>> 
>>> So, that said, any opinions on project names?  The current unix agent is 'agent-smith' on LP, but I don't completely like that name and the work I'm doing is significantly modifying the source tree enough that it feels like it's a new project.
>>> 
>>> - Chris
>>> 
>>> 
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