[Pkg-xen-devel] XCP and OpenXenCenter
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Fri Jul 1 07:02:19 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:05:58PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
> OpenXENCenter and XENWebManager use the xen api to communicate with XCP
> so im not sure exactly what there is to package, simply download the app
> and run...
> its python based, and pretty much runs out of the box
>
See:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems#head-cb533d9953d9d4b0c1f23d968331f3a620209fc3
xm/xend toolstack does not fully support XenAPI, for example xend does not
implement "pools" concept. So you cannot use use OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager with "normal" Xen.
Also, xm/xend toolstack is deprecated upstream, and it was replaced with xl/libxl toolstack in Xen 4.1,
which does not support XenAPI at all.
Full XenAPI support is built into "xapi" toolstack, which is a totally different toolstack
compared to xm/xend and xl/libxl. xapi was opensourced in 2009, and it's currently
used in Citrix XenServer and in Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).
There is an ongoing effort to package XCP components for Debian/Ubuntu, but that'll take
some time, because it's a pretty big effort, since it involves a lot of *other* packages
and not-yet-upstream patches to other subsystems/packages aswell, not just the xapi library/binary.
XenServer and XCP are a dedicated virtualization platform with a lot of integration to multiple
components.. ie. a purpose-built virtualization platform instead of generic Linux distro.
I think the Debian/Ubuntu packaging/integration will be discussed at upcoming
Xen Summit North America in the beginning of August, if you're interested.
http://xen.org/community/xensummit.html
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/06/22/xen-summit-2011-agenda-and-speaker-lineup/
-- Pasi
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[1]rrs at debian.org>
> wrote:
>
> I just noticed OpenXenCenter (aka OpenXenManager) that is an open source
> replacement for Citrix's XenCenter. This tool works with XenServer.
>
> But as per the blog entry:
> [2]http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/02/09/xen-cloud-platform-installation/
>
> it is also supposed to work with Xen Cloud Platform. XCP is licensed
> GPL2 and is a combination of multiple packages.
>
> Has the team looked at the feasibility of taking the agent component
> from XCP and packaging it for Debian. If we can get the agent, and then
> along with OpenXenCenter, we can have a good management tool for Xen in
> Debian.
>
> --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf | [3]http://people.debian.org/~rrs
> Debian - The Universal Operating System
>
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> Visible links
> 1. mailto:rrs at debian.org
> 2. http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/02/09/xen-cloud-platform-installation/
> 3. http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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