Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XenAPI] Implement VM.set_VCPUs_at_startup

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:15:24PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:

> >> This patch implements VM.set_VCPUs_at_startup and VM.set_VCPUs_max
> >> XenAPI methods in xend.  Implementation already exists in XenAPI 
> >> c-bindings.
> >
> > I'm a little bit confused by all these patches I'm seeing. It looks like
> > some basic parts of the 1.0 API still aren't done yet; is that accurate?
> 
> Yep, seems to be the case.  Many of the class fields/methods defined in
> the spec are not implemented in xend.  Not sure how much the spec and
> implementation diverge - although quickly finding out as the cim
> providers consume more of Xen API (hence the patches).
> 
> > If so, is there an ETA for when xend will be finished and the
> > documentation completed (it's still very incomplete unfortunately) ? And
> > will they be backported to the 3.1 branch, or will users need to wait
> > for the next minor release to get a finished API?
> 
> Good questions, unfortunately I'm not the one who can answer :-).

Anybody at XenSource care to comment?

I'm also confused about xm. When it uses xen-api exclusively, it looks
like I'll have to create a fake user and put their name and password
in the clear in a file in /etc. Is that the intended plan?

john

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