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Xen API C Bindings
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This distribution is the source code to the proposed Xen API C bindings.
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The Xen API project will define an XML-RPC protocol for remote and local
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management of Xen-based systems, and a set of bindings for these XML-RPC calls
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into a number of languages (this package contains those to the C language).
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The intention is to standardise these XML-RPC calls, and then the Xen project
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will guarantee that that wire protocol will be supported for the long term.
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The bindings will also be supported in the Xen tree, giving a stable
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foundation for Xen management tools and middlewares, in particular the Xen CIM
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providers and libvirt.
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THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. The API and bindings are under active design and
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development, and this is a snapshot release for developers only. Both the API
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and the C bindings are scheduled to be stabilised by the Xen 3.0.4 release
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i.e. October 2006 at the earliest.
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These bindings are open-source (LGPL), and will be committed as libraries to
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the Xen trees for all to use after the Xen 3.0.3 release.
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We welcome any discussion about this library and the API in general. Please
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join the Xen-API mailing list if you are interested in this project. I (Ewan
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Mellor) will collate all the feedback from that list and push out new versions
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of the document and the bindings as and when.
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URLs
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----
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Xen-API wiki page:
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http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi
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Xen-API mailing list:
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http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
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Usage
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-----
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The bindings depend upon libxml2, the XML toolkit from the GNOME project; the
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test program depends upon libcurl3 also. On Debian, you need the packages
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libxml2-dev and libcurl3-dev.
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To compile, type make. To compile the test also, type make
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test/test_bindings, remembering the additional dependency.
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To run the test, do
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./test/test_bindings <url> <username> <password>
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where <url> is the fragment of the server URL that follows the http://, for
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example "localhost:8005/RPC2".
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