From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM-Tool: C-based Xen management tools Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:20:22 -0800 Message-ID: <420D2FA6.10905@us.ibm.com> References: <420D296B.7000106@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <420D296B.7000106@us.ibm.com> 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: Anthony Liguori Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > We've implemented a set of basic management tools for Xen. The tools > are written in C and are currently capable of creating and shutting down > domains, connecting to a domain's console, enumerating domains, and > attaching VBDs and VIFs to a domain. Hey, Anthony, thanks for getting this out!. I've started to take a look at it - won't be able to test it for a bit since I'm running on -testing for a while - I'll have feedback next week. > The tools are still very rough. This version is pretty much a > proof-of-concept. It should not be used in a production environment. > In fact, you shouldn't use them with any domains that are important to > you. While I've never seen any data corruption caused by the tools > there's just not been enough testing yet. Can you tell us on what you tested, and which configurations, so far? > These tools are a product of about a weeks work. There are some missing > features including save/restore, migration, and usb/pci virtualation. > The reason is that we wanted to get the communities feedback before we > went too far. Are you going to be doing the USB and PCI stuff as well? Will you need any help on that? > You can get a copy of the tools at the following URL. xen-unstable is > required to use them (they rely on xcs). Feedback is greatly > appreciated :-) Nothing is really set in stone. So there will be no effort to backport, correct? thanks, Nivedita ------------------------------------------------------- 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