December 2005 - Devel - libvirt List Archives

[Libvir] Release of libvir-0.0.1
by Daniel Veillard 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

First release based on today's CVS snapshot is available for download from http://libvir.org/downloads.html I just added python bindings before the release, unfortunately I noticed only after that the destructor for the virDomain and virConnect classes were broken <grin/>. Well it is definitely a Work in Progress and sticking with CVS might be a good idea at the moment. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[Libvir] Re: [Fedora-xen] Libvir: a simple C virtualization control library
by Daniel Veillard 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Bryan D. Payne wrote: > Interesting. Can you expand on how this is different than the > services currently provided by libxc? Is the idea to simply have a > wrapper around libxc that can be LGPL and, possibly, be extended to > work with other virtualization mechanisms? Or does libvir provide > services not found in libxc? It is not using libxc for a couple of reasons: - to decouple the API from Xen, with the hope it will help provide API stability with an intermediate abstraction - due to the licence: if the LGPL library requires to link with a GPL library well the resulting programs can only be used under the GPL licence. It is smaller than libxc in term of capabilities, the goal is not to try to match those exactly, it can be expanded if there is demand though but it's more about providing generic services. For example there is an API do dump running domain informations as an XML chunk that could be used as well for different kind of virtualization engine, and is more high level than what libxc provides. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[Libvir] test
by Daniel Veillard 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

test of the list and archives, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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