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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] xend future
On 03/21/2012 12:32 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:25 +0000, Mario wrote:On 03/21/2012 12:16 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:08 +0000, Mario wrote:On 03/21/2012 10:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:58 +0000, Mario wrote:Hey everyone, I was wondering, since xend will finaly be removed in the next major release, what will the future be like for us who use its XML-RPC features? Is there going to be some other way to do it, for example adding xml-rpc support into libxl, or should I simply start porting all my scripts over to libvirt?The best options for replacing xend here are either libvirt/virtd or xapi. I guess you already know about libvirt. The XML-RPC interface exposed by xapi is a descendant of that used by xend, although I'm not sure how much they have in common nowadays. Might potentially make porting somewhat simple I guess (just a guess though). You can get xapi either via the traditional XCP route or it is also now available in Debian and Ubuntu as a result of project Kronos. Project Zeus[2] is in progress to add it to Fedora etc. Ian. [0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_Introduction [1] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Project_Kronos [2] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Project_Zeus_Fedora_SpecWell, I would usualy consider Xapi since it's directly related to Xen, however, because it is "distro-locked" in such a way that there has to be a fork per distro doesn't really seem like the right choice to me. I suppose it has to be like that if its just a hack to make XCP work on classic distro's? Or am I mistaken?The aim of Kronos and Zeus is to make XAPI available as a proper package on various distros, there is no fork -- only effort to package things for the particular distro packaging formats, which is normal for any software -- or hack involved. Part of Kronos has necessarily involved changes to the xapi side to make it less entangled with XCP and therefore usable in a generic environment (i.e. resolving the "distro-lock" which you refer to), this has obviously made Zeus a fair bit easier. Ian.In that case, I am interested in making a package for yet another distribution, and instead of making up yet another name and doing it all from scratch (if its even possible), which of the two would be a better choice to follow? Which of the two is more generic? Does having Zeus project ensure that Kronos will stay active, or is Zeus not dependant on Kronos development, etc etc :-)Which distro? CCing Mike who has been heavily involved with both Kronos and Zeus (I'm just an outside observer). AFAIK the disentanglement aspect arising from both Kronos and Zeus are resulting in patches which are being committed to the upstream xapi code base. Unless your distro happens to use .deb (Kronos) or .rpm (Zeus) packages then probably only this upstream aspect is useful to you, otherwise the appropriate project could perhaps serve as a starting point to apply the necessary distro specific policies to. Ian.Any info I can get, would help alot. Thanks, mario Distro in question is Slackware, I already maintain a script for building a Xen package for it, so it would make sense to try and hammer this one in aswell if at all possible. Slackware can install rpm, and there is also a tool for converting deb packages, but it would be much better if I could do it from clean sources, instead of repackaging another distros cruft. Is there a place for "vanilla" xapi source I could download and try building? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
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