Re: [Xen-devel] Tool to migrate xm/xend managed domains into xl.cfg files

[Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02.04.2014 17:45, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 02.04.2014 15:42, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:49:48PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>>>> Does anybody have such a tool which could be shared? I know with a recent 
>>>>> patch
>>>>> in libvirt (1.2.3~rc1) it is possible to create libvirt xml files from the
>>>>> config.sxp ones.
>>>>> Just was wondering whether there might be a need of having something 
>>>>> similar for
>>>>> those that used to use xm/xend managed domains without anything else than 
>>>>> the
>>>>> xen-utils.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With libvirt you can do at least:
>>>>
>>>> virsh dumpxml vm_name > /tmp/a.xml
>>>> virsh domxml-to-native xen-xm /tmp/a.xml > vmname.cfg
>>>>
>>>> Which gives you xm/xend text config files.. which should be mostly 
>>>> compatible with xl cfgfiles.
>>>
>>> Right, you also could do a domxml-from-native xen-sxpr <file> and re-export 
>>> that
>>> with domxml-to-native xen-xm as you said.
>>> The reason I am asking or looking into it is trying to figure out whether I 
>>> can
>>> offer a nice way of don some of that automatically for people on upgrade 
>>> (and
>>> there might be some that don't have libvirt installed as well).
>>
>> Would users really want that translation done automatically?  I'd
>> rather be told how to do it myself so I can check the outcome; but
>> maybe I'm a bit strange that way. :-)
>>
>> In theory it seems like someone who knew what they were doing with
>> python should be able to rip out the sxp parsing stuff from xend,
> 
> Does xend store its managed domains as sxp? I thought I'd seem piles of
> XML relating to the XenAPI (== managed domains) under /var somewhere...
> 
> Ian.
> 
There is a bit of that but the files themselves
/var/lib/xend/domains/<uuid>/config.sxp are sxp. And for something useful only
with a basic xen install the output should be xm format. Libvirt uses some kind
of xml but we are in a better place there as import export functions are easy to
access. There is only one minor oddness right now that you end up with an xml
that defines a vif#.# interface as a target for a bridge but its simple to grep
that away.

-Stefan

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