Re: Web based front end

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Tom Wilkie wrote:

> David
>
> On 4 Sep 2005, at 17:37, David Isaac Wolinsky wrote:
>
>> Thanks Tom for the info, I had remembered twisted being removed but  
>> hadn't realized that XenSV had been since updated.  A couple  
>> questions though...
>>
>>    Why not decouple the interface from Apache (as to require only  
>> python be installed)?  I am not sure of the performance advantage,  
>> but it should reduce the memory requirements for dom0, allow for a  
>> slightly smaller disk (negligible), and make installation easier.
>
>
> Well, I didn't want to completely re-implement a HTTP server  
> (although I suppose its not tough) so I looked at using another one.   
> The bit that depends on apache/mod_python is minimal, about a 20 line  
> adapter between mod_python and what twisted used to provide.  So if  
> you wrote your own http server it would be a reasonably straight  
> forward task to do.

I think this is what you want:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html

At some point, I'd like to remove the HTTP server Xend is using and 
replace it with SimpleHTTPServer.

> I might actually do this, the dependance on apache is a pain, and I  
> think xend has its own http server in it atm.
>
>>    Similarly have you looked into writing XenSV in C?
>
>
> The primary reason I choose python is because thats what we use in  
> cambridge, and its what all the other tools and written in ;-)  Also  
> it lets me call straight into the XendClient.py stuff, which  
> simplifies it greatly.

Yeah, until the store is more complete, tools pretty much have to be in 
python.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori