Re: [Xen-devel] Xenophilia Release

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael McCabe wrote:

> Xenophilia is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is based
> around Xen.  Laura is currently in an alpha state and is under heavy
> development.  It's not considered stable and It may eat your system and
> then start doing bad things. If it breaks please file a bug here.
>  
My first question is why create a specialized distribution?  Is there 
any direct benefit other than ease of use?
> In addition to a Linux distribution we currently have gXenophilia, which
> is in a rough alpha form.  gXenophilia is a pyGtk based administration
> application that talks http.  Screenshots are available
> http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/screenshots/ .  
>  
This is neat!  Can you explain the "talks http" a little more?  Does it 
communicate with remote Xend's via Xend's HTTP interface or does it 
export it's own management protocol via http?
> Documentation is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/docs.html
> Bugs can be reported at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/bugs/main_page.php
> Downloads are available at
> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia
>  
Great work!  Look forward to seeing more about it in the future...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Mike McCabe
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