From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Fehlig Subject: Re: [PATCH][XenAPI] Implement VM.set_VCPUs_at_startup Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:35:01 -0600 Message-ID: <46716E35.1000503@novell.com> References: <466F20A6.4020100@novell.com> <20070613011143.GB17307@totally.trollied.org.uk> <4670889C.603@novell.com> <20070614155117.GA30365@totally.trollied.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070614155117.GA30365@totally.trollied.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: John Levon Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:15:24PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > >>>> This patch implements VM.set_VCPUs_at_startup and VM.set_VCPUs_max >>>> XenAPI methods in xend. Implementation already exists in XenAPI c-bindings. >>>> >>> I'm a little bit confused by all these patches I'm seeing. It looks like >>> some basic parts of the 1.0 API still aren't done yet; is that accurate? >>> >> Yep, seems to be the case. Many of the class fields/methods defined in >> the spec are not implemented in xend. Not sure how much the spec and >> implementation diverge - although quickly finding out as the cim >> providers consume more of Xen API (hence the patches). >> >> >>> If so, is there an ETA for when xend will be finished and the >>> documentation completed (it's still very incomplete unfortunately) ? And >>> will they be backported to the 3.1 branch, or will users need to wait >>> for the next minor release to get a finished API? >>> >> Good questions, unfortunately I'm not the one who can answer :-). >> > > Anybody at XenSource care to comment? > > I'm also confused about xm. When it uses xen-api exclusively, it looks > like I'll have to create a fake user and put their name and password > in the clear in a file in /etc. Is that the intended plan? > I have xend configured to use unix domain socket for Xen API server with no authentication. In xend-config.sxp: (xen-api-server ((unix none))) The socket is restricted to root via file permissions. In xm-config.xml I have xm configured to use the socket Jim