New "real" upstream for guest agent

[olivierlambert]

Hello there!

We are organizing with the Xen project to rewrite guest agent from scratch, under the Xen Project umbrella directly (and not only XCP or XenServer).

Goals are:

• providing a unified upstream source repo for distro maintainers
• writing it from scratch to make it simple as possible (no daemon if possible)
• building it with an incremental approach (Linux support first)
• being community driven
• splitting clearly the agent from libs (xenstore-read/write…)
• reducing the burden to package it for distro's

https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent

We might put someone dedicated to that, but before doing actual coding, we should probably set up a workgroup between Xen actors interested, to be able to agree on a minimal set of features.

[vmpr]

That sounds like a great idea @olivierlambert - I will follow the project, happy to help but can't contribute actual code

[olivierlambert]

Contributing isn't just only about the code: giving your opinion, testing first versions and so on :+1: All of this matters a lot, at the same level than the code itself!