Re: [Xen-users] Announcing XenMaster

[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/2/12 Linus van Geuns <linus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> @XenMaster: I would have expected any current Xen management
>> front-end/framework to make use of and help advaince the libvirt
>> project.
<snip>
>  It totally makes sense
> for tools that aim to manage multiple types of hypervisors or multiple
> types of storage.
> For a XCP frontend it makes not much sense to base it libvirt since
> the direct XAPI access is more suited to manage SRs and other
> specialties and XCP does already abstract all of those.

Agreed. There are a lot of features that a generic tool like libvirt
simply doesn't support (as it is a common abstraction layer) and not
purpose-built for Xen like XAPI and libxl are.

Here is a summary of the choice of toolstacks:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Choice_of_Toolstacks

Thanks,
Todd

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Todd Deshane
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