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From: "AP Xen" <apxeng@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: New feature support - xl or xm ?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:02:13 -0700
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> We like the 'xm' CLI, in fact we are trying our best to provide a
> compatible command line interface with 'xl'.
> Ideally you'll be able to symlink xl to xm and everything will still
> work. If you find any problem with command line incompatibilities
> please let us know, and we'll fix them.
> 
> On the other hand if you are speaking about the XML-RPC interface
> provided by xend, that is a totally different matter.

So with xl, xend doesn't need to be running as it uses the libxl API which
bypasses libxenguest/xend?

Thanks,
AP