On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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. there is on-going work about this: http://markmail.org/thread/sxezpziog2koewlt > > >>> >>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>> >>
