Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] libxenlight driver
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Ok, so basically the mgmt app that is using the libxenlight API
is taking the place of XenD. Thus in the new scheme libvirtd
would have to handle those kind of events.
Right.
Libxenlight provides all the functions needed to do that and you can
find a reference implementation in xl (tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c).
This is fine because
we already do that kind of thing with our other HV drivers for
QEMU/KVM, UserModeLinux and LXC.
Good to hear.
On a related note, where does XenAPI fit into this picture ?
Previously XenD would provide (at least some of) the XenAPI
functionality in the open source stack, while I understand
that the XenEnterprise had a separate impl of XenAPI. It
sounds like XenAPI is likely only relevant for XenEnterprise
connectivity in the future.
Nowadays XAPI (the XenServer toolstack) is Open Source and provides a
full feature implementation of the API. I think that users that need
XenAPI functionalities are probably best served by using XAPI rather
than XenD.