Comment 11 for bug 839492

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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote : Re: [Bug 839492] Re: xen-blkfront module missing from initramfs, Ubuntu as DomU can't boot

halfgaar wrote:
> With some other problems I had, I found out that xen-tools is deprecated
> and no longer developed.

Ehm, where did you read that? This information is outdated since at
least January 2010. I know it, I'm one of its current developers...

> Debian is removing/has removed the package from testing.

... and its Debian maintainer.

Please have a look at http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools.html
before broadcasting such false claims.

> You're supposed to use libvirt now

Who claims that? You're supposed to use what you prefer. Nobody in the
OSS community can tell you what you _have_ to use.

  Regards, Axel
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