Re: [Xen-API] XCP Feature propose - send/receive OS information using introspection

[Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 14:11 -0200, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
> I was trying some xenstore functions using the XenAPI and I think it
> not write the data on-line:
> 
> session = XenAPI.Session(url)
> session.xenapi.login_with_password(username, password)
> vm=session.xenapi.VM.get_by_uuid('31064e39-71d6-7a30-593d-b3d0e2db1552')
> session.xenapi.VM.add_to_xenstore_data(vm, 'orquestra', 'teste')
> print session.xenapi.VM.get_xenstore_data(vm)
> 
> 
> It is running ok but this information isn't showed into the VM using
> xenstore-read while its running. I think this function is to set only
> when the VM is halted.
> 
> Using xenstore directly in domain0 I can send and receive data between
> domain0 and domainU. I'm learning the toolstack to check if it is
> simple to implement.
> 
> Any ideia?


Xenstore can't provide transfer files functionality and can't be used to
store sensitive data, for example user can send fake data to xenstore...


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