and PV/ramdisk
Add support for 'file:' and 'data:' URI schemes for the parameters
'PV/kernel' and 'PV/ramdisk' in the VM.create() call. The 'data:'
scheme handling enables using a file which is stored inside the
management system (from where the XenAPI call is send) as kernel or
ramdisk.
Notes:
o all included: a detailed description can be found in the xenapi
documentation
o bumped up the version of the API document to 1.0.8 (because of
(minimal) interface extension)
o Future enhancements (like http:, ftp: schemes) fit seamlessly into
the current design / classes
o Unittest cases and xm-test case included
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <xen@flonatel.org>
There were a couple of small bugs in the xapi xm-test:
o outdated XenAPI calls were removed from testcase
(02_xapi-vbd_basic)
o minor problem with XendLocalStorageRepository
is fixed (missed list_images() function - which
is moved from the XenQCoWStroageRepo to the common
base class XendStorageRepository)
which was detected running 02_xapi-vbd_basic.
o XenAPI session handling and connecting is fixed.
o 03_xapi-network_pos was rewritten and now uses
XenAPI.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <xen@flonatel.org>
In various places in documentation and code, IP addresses are provided
as examples, defaults, or dummy configuration. In general the
specific IP addresses used in Xen are not always appropriate. (For
example, 1.2.3.4 is used in a few places!)
The following addresses should be used:
* For examples and documentation, 192.0.2.0/24. (See RFC3330.)
* For defaults for private networks, a random network from RFC1918.
I have randomly selected 172.30.206.0/24 for this purpose and
documented this in at the only registry I know of,
www.ucam.org/cam-grin. This network should henceforth be used for
default configurations of local bridges, test networks, etc. in
Xen tools.
The following addresses should NOT be used:
* 10.0.*.*, 10.1.*.*, 192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, etc. Using these
addresses gives greatly increased likelihood of collision, as
ignorant network administrators and reckless middlebox vendors
often pick networks from the bottom of 10/8 and 192.168/16.
* 169.254.*.*. These are reserved for zeroconf (ad-hoc networking)
and should not be used for Xen private networks, bridges, etc.,
etc. Use of these addresses by Xen scripts causes trouble on hosts
(eg laptops) which find themselves in ad-hoc networking
environments. I think this is not hypothetical (!) since at least
one Linux distribution have specific code to detect this case and
cause Xen startup to fail iff the host already has an external
zeroconf address.
* 1.2.3.4. WTF !?
I have also used 127.0.255.255 in one place where apparently a dummy
address is needed (some Linux kernels won't accept a lack of an NFS
server address). If 127.0.255.255 is mistakenly used it is unlikely
to do any damage to real traffic even if it does escape into the
network at large.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This patch replaces calls to get_dev_property() by calls to
get_dev_property_by_uuid() in XenAPI.py and fixes the implementation
of get_dev_property_by_uuid.
I am adding a test case to the xapi grouptests to verify the fixes.
There's a FIXME note in the test case which should be looked at.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
- renames the XenManagedDomain.py file to XenAPIDomain.py, since this
name better reflects its functionality/purpose
- adds domain tracking to the XenAPIDomain class so that xend-managed
domains can be deleted in an 'atexit' handler upon test case termination
- adds one basic xapi-related test which is part of the grouptests
'xapi'
- refactors the vtpm-related test using xen-api and adds it to the
grouptest 'xapi'
- adds documentation to the README for how to configure xm and xend to
use XML-RPC or Xen-API for communication
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
Keir Fraser
Tom Wilkie
Alastair Tse
Ewan Mellor