On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:32 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > there is on-going work about this: > http://markmail.org/thread/sxezpziog2koewlt
Thanks for this Sebastien, re-reading them. I saw the emails but I could not understand the email thread and had the Xen/XenServer/Xen Project confusion at the time. Regards. > > > > > > > > > >>> > >>> 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. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >
