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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: New feature support - xl or xm ?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:19:02 +0100
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On 10/06/2010 21:02, "AP Xen" <apxeng@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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?

All correct, except libxl does use libxenctrl and libxenguest. But it does
not use xend and so does not need it to be running.

 -- Keir