libvirt-cim : An open-source CIM provider for libvirt This is the announcement of a new open-source project called libvirt-cim based on libvirt and aiming at offering the complete functionality of libvirt via a CIM provider implementing the DMTF SVPC virtualization model and released under an LGPL licence. A CIM [1] provider is an implementation of a set of standardized interfaces (Common Information Model) whose goal are to provide well defined entry points allowing easier and interoperable management tools to be built. In the case of libvirt-cim, the goal is of course to export the SVPC virtualization model, which then can be used to manage storage, hosts and domains remotely. Currently CIM based management targets mostly enterprise deployments but has the potential of solving the more generic problem of remote control interfaces which affects nearly all virtualization use cases and many other aspects of the computing environment. The current state of the project is based on an initial implementation provided by IBM, and released for the libvirt project under an LGPL licence. It currently targets only Xen virtualization but the goal is to expand support to the other mechanisms supported by libvirt, like KVM. It is made of a library libcmpiutil of library functions which are not specific to libvirt and useful for CMPI, the programming interfaces used to develop CIM providers. The main part is in the libvirt-cim module. The CIM provider is currently tested with the Pegasus [2] and SFCB [3] environment and the goal is to ensure compatibility with the various CIM based management systems. The project is hosted on libvirt.org, the source code is managed using Mercurial [4] and Dan Smith [5] is the project maintainer doing the commits. The project home page is available at: http://libvirt.org/CIM/ source code download is available at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt-cim/ and the Mercurial tree is located at: http://libvirt.org/hg/ A dedicated mailing-list has been set up, libvirt-cim@redhat.com with the usual list page and archive mailman pages at: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-cim Daniel [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_%28computing%29 [2] http://www.openpegasus.org [3] http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net/Sfcb [4] Mercurial: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ [5] Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com> -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/