xenapi meeting minutes 2.txt

文件包含了关于开源的xen虚拟机的API接口函数的说明文档

Xen API Project
Meeting #2 Minutes - July 2, 2008

* Portions of API not complete yet 
	- (storage manager, physical device manager,statistics)

* libvrt - more general purpose API and not a complete API set for Xen

* People want to write applications that run against XenServer and Open Source Xen

* Specification Documents
	* 4.1 for XenServer (docs.xensource.com)
	* 1.0 for Xen API (open source)
		- fairly complete, certain functions need to be updated

	** Have open source API updated to the Citrix definition API 
	(e.g. Bond Class, VLAN Class)

* VDI uuid is always recreated when creating. (XendLocalStorageRepo.py,
  XendQCoWStorageRepo.py). Is it designed like that or a bug?
	- VDI - uuid is always recreating; designed like that
	- location field is the storage backend to identify the disk to it

* the xm command line interface has too much history burden. can we just leave
  it for the legacyXMLRPC interface and rewrite a small XenAPI only client?
  Does citrix has the plan to rewrite and open the xe tool for open source
  XenAPI?
	- have a Xen API only client without a large client installation; run in
	RAM disk (python)
 
* Next Steps
	* Determine which functions needed completion or work in Xen API 1.0 and 
	have volunteers agree to do the development and testing
	* Create a list of API requirements that people want in the final Xen API
		- list will exist on Wiki for people to update or send email
		to [e-mail] for tracking