From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM-Tool: C-based Xen management tools Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:37:29 -0600 Message-ID: <1108409848.2601.13.camel@localhost> References: <420D296B.7000106@us.ibm.com> <200502141635.48773.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4210DCAA.2050200@codemonkey.ws> <200502141719.21504.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200502141719.21504.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> 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: Mark Williamson Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:19, Mark Williamson wrote: > Thinking about it, we could keep the device identification logic in userspace, > which would be cleaner. The tools could then just tell the backend to claim > the device on a given port. There'd be a few driver tweaks required to make > it all work together but this may well be a cleaner approach. Yes, this is how I also envisioned it would work. I think the approach has many advantages in general. > Yes, I thought so to. A general admin GUI is on our todo list locally but > AFAIK nobody is working on it right now. Every so often I poke the XenSV web > interface to make sure it's still working. I'm trying to build a library around vm-tools so that doing something like writing a GUI would be quite trivial. At some point, I may try to throw together a GUI but I figured that one of the distros would probably beat me to it :-) Regards, -- Anthony Liguori Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin E-mail: aliguori@us.ibm.com Phone: (512) 838-1208 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click