Re: [Xen-users] Missing libvirt+libxl functionality (Was: Re: Programmatic administration of Xen machines)

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 04.01.16 um 12:36 schrieb Ian Campbell:
> Sorry to hijack this thread.
>
> On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 12:56 +0100, Andreas Pflug wrote:
>> Actually, I find virsh a bad idea since its support for the new xl
>> interface isn't feature complete as the old xm interface was. I had to
>> realize this the hard way when my virsh based python tools didn't work
>> as expected after upgrading from xm to xl.
> Note that virsh speaks to libxl directly, not via xl.
>
> Please can you list the functionality of libvirt's libxl backed which is
> missing compared to the old xend based one? 

libvirt only handles domains created through it, i.e. using xl at the
same time is incompatible. Since dom0 can't be created using libvirt,
it's missing from "virsh list" in any case. libvirt stores its own
state, not using libxl/xenstore stuff.

Regards,
Andreas


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