On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Thanks David > > So, is XAPI the way CloudStack communicates to Xen? I'm just coming up to > speed on Xen, by the way. > > Also, when you say, "is essentially XenServer in the eyes of CloudStack," > what does that mean? The two (Xen + XAPI or XenServer) are looked at as if > they are the same?
XenServer, other features notwithstanding - is essentially Xen + XAPI atop a Linux distribution. While there are other important pieces, the piece that CloudStack interacts with is XAPI, so it assumes if it is interacting with XAPI that it is interacting with XenServer. (as it does with XCP, and in this case with Xen + XAPI on Ubuntu) --David
