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Re: [Xen-users] Docs Explaining internals of Xen from programming perspective



on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:11:51PM -0000, AMIT KUMAR (amitkpce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
  hi,
 Does anyone know of any document which explains internals of xen
 (typically about creation of domains  from perspective of process
creation and system programming)?
 The aim is to call xen api's in a program  to automate the process of
 creation/shutdown/migration   of domains.

You'll probably want to call into some of the tools; the backend libraries of the xm tool are likely to be best. If you these instead of the lowlevel Xen APIs you get a lot more work done for you. Alternatively, you can talk the Xend management protocol directly, either over a Unix domain socket or a TCP connection.

Of course there is also the quote that came up last week "the roads are the best map", i.e. the source code generally is the most up-to-date reference ;-)

Perhaps the Xen Interface Manual?  Covers Xen 2.0, 3.x is a work in
progress.

   http://www.xensource.com/files/xen_interface.pdf

You're probably going to be most interested in Appendix A, "Xen
Hypercalls", particularly A.8, Inter-Domain Communication.

We're actively looking at getting the interface documentation into a good state - ideally in time for around 3.0 (at which point the interface will be stable and supported for the foreseeable future). Stay tuned folks ;-)

Cheers,
Mark



Cheers.



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