Re: [Xen-users] xend http interface

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anand wrote:

> Dear Anthony,
>
> I looked at http://hg.codemonkey.ws/libxend, looks real nice. Is it 
> complete ?
Just missing a few functions to access the VCPU information..  I have no 
plans to implement an interface to VNET.
I'm hoping it can be used as a backend for libvir.  If you haven't 
checked libvir out, you should.
> If i may ask what other work you are doing on xen ? I see xenfs there 
> as well. I hope you won't mind sharing about your work.
Oh, I've got a fair bit of hg repositories there.  xenfs is a FUSE 
filesystem that exposes a /proc like interface for Xen.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> And thanks for the pointer to XendClient.py.
>
> On 1/2/06, *Anthony Liguori* <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     Anand wrote:
>
>     > Dear Jean,
>     >
>     > Thanks a lot for the help.
>     >
>     > Is there some kind of documentation for the complete list of
>     commands
>     > for http interface ? Alternatively if you have the list and
>     > explanation i would very appreciate if you can post it here.
>
>     http://hg.codemonkey.ws/libxend
>
>     Is pretty close to exhaustive except for scheduler operations and VNET
>     operations.  Check out XendClient.py, that's the closest thing to
>     a full
>     list.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Anthony Liguori
>
>     > On 1/2/06, *Jean-David Silberzahn* <jds@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jds@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:jds@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jds@xxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Anand a écrit :
>     >
>     >     > While going through the manual i came to know that xend
>     has an http
>     >     > interface which can be used to interact with xen. However
>     >     searching on
>     >     > the lists and googling only resulted in 3-4 posts on the
>     devel list
>     >     > which still didn't have any information on the same.
>     >     >
>     >     > Is anyone using it ... ?
>     >
>     >     We are using this interface to control the xend daemon. With
>     this
>     >     interface, you can do quite everything you can with the xm tool.
>     >     For example to destroy a domain, you can do a HTTP POST
>     request on
>     >     this
>     >     url :
>     >     http://xenserver:8000/xend/domain/domain-name
>     >     with parameter
>     >     op=destroy
>     >     To create a domainU, you can do a POST request on this url :
>     >     http://xenserver:8000/xend/domain/
>     >     with parameter
>     >     op=create&config=s-expression
>     >     s-expression is the xen configuration format (you can look
>     at it
>     >     making
>     >     a xm list -l for example)
>     >     To list started domains :
>     >     http://xenserver:8000/xend/domain/
>     >     or
>     >     http://xenserver:8000/xend/domain/?detail=1
>     >     <http://xenserver:8000/xend/domain/?detail=1>
>     >
>     >     The http server don't exactly map xm commands however : to
>     boot a new
>     >     server, you have 2 or 3 operations to do when using the http
>     server :
>     >     create, wait_for_devices and unpause
>     >
>     >     The xend HTTP interface is accessible via a TCP socket or
>     via an Unix
>     >     socket (way used by xm in xen-3.0)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > regards,
>     >
>     > Anand
>     >
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>
> regards,
>
> Anand 


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