[Pkg-xen-devel] XCP and OpenXenCenter

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 07/01/2011 12:32 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 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/

Thanks Pasi and others. I will subscribe to this list to keep track of
this effort.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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