On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Bryan D. Payne wrote: 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/