Re: Updated version of VM-Tools and libxen available

[woody <marvel@us.ibm.com>]

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Daniel Stekloff wrote:

>On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:29, aq wrote:
>  
>
>>On Apr 6, 2005 9:06 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>A new version of VM-Tools and libxen are available for those
>>>interested.  There's a number of new features that I thought some folks
>>>here would be interested in.
>>>
>>>vm-tools:
>>>o VMX support
>>>o vm-top (with SMP support)
>>>o vm-balloon
>>>o many bugfixes
>>>
>>>libxen:
>>>o Use the positive portion of the return code when possible
>>>o Ensure error code is in errno
>>>o Linux build routine
>>>o memext ops
>>>
>>>VM-Tools:
>>>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/vm-tools-latest.tar.gz
>>>
>>>libxen:
>>>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/libxen-3.0.1.tar.gz
>>>      
>>>
>>Anthony, I would like to give those code a try. Could you please give
>>us some brief HOWTO guidance for the first steps? Do I need to stop
>>the xend, and run other alternative daemon to use vm-tools?
>>
>>I looked at the tarball, but found no such documentation.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi, 
>
>vm-tools can co-exist with xend, you don't need to stop xend in order to use 
>vm-tools. To get started with it:
>
>1) vm-tools only works with the xeno-unstable tree.
>
>2) untar the tarball
>
>3) make
>
>4) make install
>  
>
** only required as root

>The "vm" script is intended to work like "xm". For more information on how to 
>use the commands, you can:
>
>1) Use man pages (They need some updating)
>  # man vm
>  
>
* definitely out of sync but the usage should be current. Try --help or -h

>2) Use help options for syntax
> # vm help
>
>3) Read the documenation in the docs directory
>
>Some basic tasks:
>
>1) Creating a domain - vm create CONFIG
> # vm create /etc/xen/vm1
>
>2) Listing domains - vm list
> # vm list
>
>3) Shutting down a domain - vm shutdown DOMID
> # vm shutdown 3
>
>
>The vm-tools are still being developed. There does need to be an installation 
>instruction added - either as a file INSTALL or in the README. A short HOWTO 
>might also help. We'll be sure to add it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan
>
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Sincerely, Woody Marvel   LTC Open Source Projects   Beaverton, OR
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