[Gllug] Xen Control Stuff

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Wed Jul 18 09:20:12 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:31:32PM +0100, Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:30:13PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Dan's already given you the libvirt spiel.  I took a look at Dupe, and
> > since it's written in Perl you'll be interested in the Perl bindings
> > for libvirt:
> > 
> > http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Sys-Virt-0.1.1/lib/Sys/Virt.pm
> > 
> > You'll appreciate libvirt if at some point you decide that Xen isn't
> > quite the way of the future, and something integrated into the Linux
> > kernel like KVM or lguest is better.  Not that that would ever happen.
> > Oh no.
> 
> I agree, libvirt is a fairly good bet, however I did find that the perl binding
> were a tad slow, and plus I have found that alot of the xen xml-rpc calls
> changed between xen 3.0 and 3.1, so presumably i'd be waiting for libvirt to
> catch-up before dupe could.

Heh, use the ocaml bindings - very fast ...

Rich.

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