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.