On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:12 +0800, Xinwei Hu wrote: > 2008/6/20 Chun Tian (binghe) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, Chad > > > > I also thought this since I'm using Mac OS as my desktop since four month > > ago. For now, my solution is running a Linux in VMware Fusion and ssh to it > > (with X forwarded) and display hb_gui window through X11.app on my Mac > > desktop. > > > > I think to compile hb_gui on Mac OS, the GUI part (python, glade) maybe not > > a big problem. But hb_gui understand Heartbeat networking protocol by load > > heartbeat libs, this may caused much part of heartbeat itself being compiled > > into Mac dylibs. It will be a hard hack since heartbeat haven't been ported > > onto Mac platform. > > It isn't necessary to build everything on OSX if you just want to run the client end on it.
> > Since I'm a Lisp programmer, I did have a plan for this: re-write heartbeat > > mgmt protocol in pure lisp (by learning ha source code or the protocol spec > > if existed) and make a new GUI client based on LispWorks/CAPI and CLIM. This > > will result a really OS-portable heartbeat client with almost no external > > library depended. My only problem is that I don't know how to get heartbeat > > protocol details other than read heartbeat source code or try to capture > > hb_gui's network packets by Wireshark. > > The on wire protocol is pure ascii, and fairly simple. And the detailed information can be get from include/mgmt/mgmt_common.h Though you may not capture valuable information by wireshark because the communication is through gnutls session > > Given that hb_gui runs fine on windows, I don't think there's big > problems to port it to OSX. > > > --binghe > > > >> has anybody built the heartbeat GUI client for OSX? > >> > >> looking at the dependencies, it looks like it should be fairly easy to do. > >> i'd really prefer to just build the GUI client instead of trying to build > >> the entire heartbeat package, but i'm unsure how to do that. if anybody > >> has > >> an pointers on how to accomplish this, i'd love to hear them! > >> > >> even better would be a heartbeat-gui Fink package, but that's just me > >> dreaming ;) > >> _______________________________________________ > > Yan Gao > China R&D Software Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Novell, Inc. > SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 > Your Linux is ready > http://www.novell.com/linux _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
