# HG changeset patch # User anthony@rhesis.austin.ibm.com # Node ID f8fcaee58fc1f7e13ae8443336a80de4c4e50538 # Parent 03bbc156d3e8fb01eee2af990176bb64e012c4e1 Use an environmental variable (XM_SERVER) to determine XML-RPC URI. This allows users to invoke xm against a remote server. This is much more useful though for exercising XML-RPC transports with xm-test though since xm-test will continue to (mostly) function if the URI is localhost. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori diff -r 03bbc156d3e8 -r f8fcaee58fc1 tools/python/xen/xend/XendClient.py --- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendClient.py Sat Jun 10 19:16:33 2006 +++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendClient.py Sat Jun 10 19:19:02 2006 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #============================================================================ from xen.util.xmlrpclib2 import ServerProxy +import os XML_RPC_SOCKET = "/var/run/xend/xmlrpc.sock" @@ -25,4 +26,8 @@ ERROR_GENERIC = 2 ERROR_INVALID_DOMAIN = 3 -server = ServerProxy('httpu:///var/run/xend/xmlrpc.sock') +uri = 'httpu:///var/run/xend/xmlrpc.sock' +if os.environ.has_key('XM_SERVER'): + uri = os.environ['XM_SERVER'] + +server = ServerProxy(uri)