From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: [PATCH] xenctld - a control channel multiplexing daemon Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:55:56 -0600 Message-ID: <1106322956.17263.26.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org As I mentioned in earlier posts, we implemented a small multiplexing daemon for the control channels in Xen. It was designed to help understand how Xen worked and not initially as a management framework. I'm posting it because I think some people might find it useful. It's very much like xcs. I also included two example tools for xenctld. One thing that I see in common between these two apps is that they both implemented better interfaces to Xen. Here's what I propose: 1) Change xcs to use unix domain sockets. 2) Add support to xcs to export ptys (storing info in the filesystem much the same way xenctld does) 3) Change xenctld tools to use xcs. 4) Factor out most of xen interaction in xcs to standard libraries. I see a three level architecture, the first level being highly portable libraries that simplify interacting with Xen. This would target every platform Xen runs on. The second level would be a daemon that is not as portable but still very portable (for instance, you may have a posix daemon, a win32 daemon, etc.). The third level would be simple applications that present a platform-level interface (here it might make sense to have a set of Linux tools, a set of BSD tools, etc.). Thoughts? I'm willing to code these things up. Just want to make sure it's agreeable first. You can get a copy of xenctld at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/xenctld-0.0.1.tar.bz2 Regards, -- Anthony Liguori Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin E-mail: aliguori@us.ibm.com Phone: (512) 838-1208 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl