Hi Tim, On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Tim, > > > > Thanks for replying, let me clean up everything and re-setup my test > infra > > after my $dayjob hours and get back to you. The test cases in the design > > doc does not discuss Xen Project so I thought I should ask if ACS works > > with Xen Project 4.x. > > > > The longer term objective is to provide support for XenProject without > XAPI, most notably with libvirt. Effectively XenServer implies XAPI and > XenProject would imply libvirt as the tooling. > Alright, that means we need to start working on a Xen Project hypervisor plugin that would (re)use libvirt (or libxl) tooling, probably re-use/fix the KVM agent too. > > > > The Xen/XenProject/XenServer/XAPI/XCP is confusing [1]. From what I > > understand, XCP was some sort of an opensource version of XenServer, but > > since XenServer distribution (which consists of Xen, XenCenter, XAPI, > Linux > > etc.) is opensource, XCP has been discontinued since 1.6 release? > > > > XCP was rolled into XenServer as of XenServer 6.2 which means 1.6 was the > last version of XCP. I tried to sum it up in this blog: > > http://open.citrix.com/blog/342-knowing-what-you-ve-got-avoiding-the-xen-vs-xenserver-confusion.html Thanks, this helps to understand what went in this transition. > > > Now, on many Linux distro XAPI is still available as 'xcp-xapi' such as > in > > Debian/Ubuntu, so what package(s) do you suggest one needs to install and > > configure so I can get DevCloud [2] work again? DevCloud is a VM that > runs > > Xen (Xen Project) inside it and can be used as a virtual host to > > test/develop ACS against it. > > > > > I see no reason why any other XAPI implementation wouldn't work, but it's > entirely possible the version of xcp-xapi you have has issues with > XenProject 4.4 due to normal versioning type issues. There also was a > different "productization" attempt called xenserver-core, but that looks to > have died on the vine. That being said, I could easily have broken > something. If I've broken something, I probably won't be able to test > until next week due to travels. The question of xapi inclusion in distros > is one I'd need to check on. > Yes, that would be great. I'll attempt testing it again with fresh setup in upcoming weekends. Regards. > > > > > [1] http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html > > [2] http://bhaisaab.org/logs/devcloud > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Rohit, > > > > > > We've only supported xapi so far, so I'm curious if you had Xen Project > > 4.4 > > > working before with xapi and if that is now broken. Nothing I did > should > > > have impacted that, but it wasn't in my test suite so anything is > > possible > > > On Jun 17, 2014 11:21 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Xen Project (previously xen.org xenserver) is widely accessible in > > > several > > > > Linux distributions such as Arch, Fedora etc. Therefore, people may > > want > > > to > > > > use it instead of XenServer (6.2 or later). The ACS 4.5 design doc > [1] > > > > explains about XenServer and how it should be tested etc. but what > > about > > > > using Xen Project? > > > > > > > > Since the recent Xen plugin refactoring as xenserver plugin [1], I'm > > > unable > > > > to get ACS to work with Xen Project 4.4 (on a real host and on a new > > > custom > > > > DevCloud). Using the XenServer ACS plugin, it identifies a Xen > Project > > > host > > > > as some version of Xen but then fails. Has anyone tried this with ACS > > > > 4.4/master? Are we going to test/support Xen Project (4.x) soon? If > so, > > > can > > > > people involved share their plan/vision/roadmap on it? > > > > > > > > Lastly, as the design doc [1] suggested XCP's development has > stopped, > > > are > > > > we going to favour using XAPI [1] now or libVirt [2] or something > else? > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Convert+Xen+usage+to+XenServer > > > > > > > > [2] http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > >
