Re: [libvirt] RE: Libvirt - Xen Enterprise - Koan
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:18:36PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:53:51PM -0000,
Gerhardus.Geldenhuis(a)gta-travel.com wrote:
> * libxenserver: The XenServer C SDK
[..]
> All this can be downloaded from CDN at
> http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Download+SDKs
I took a look at the C library:
* It's LGPLv2+, so there is no license issue that I can see with
linking it to libvirt.
* It presents each XenServer API call as a C function. Each C
function constructs an XML document (XMLRPC, I think), dispatches it
to the server, gets the reply, and unpacks the resulting XML.
* Uses libxml2 to do the XML construction and parsing.
* You have to supply your own HTTP library to pass the data to the
server. The examples use libcurl for this.
* Compiles with -Wall -Werror without warnings or errors.
It seems reasonably sensible. It still requires the proprietary
XenEnterprise to be installed for testing of course.
It is possible that it might work with the XenAPI impl in the open
source XenD too - worth a try if you want to develop something
Daniel
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