Beware: I inherited the code and it's not quite to my liking yet. :) I have a number of significant cleanups planned.. If anyone wants to discuss anything related to the guest agent, let me know!
- Chris On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Ant Messerli wrote: > Andy, > > Work on our Linux guest agent is being headed up by Chris Behrens and is > located here: https://launchpad.net/agent-smith > > We've added support for the various Linux distros. We've also been > working internally on getting our Windows guest agent opensourced. Both > of our agents allow us to do reconfiguration while the instance is up and > running instead of boot-time only in order to prevent unnecessary downtime > for our customers. We anticipate adding IPv6 support to both agents next. > > [Ant]ony Messerli > The Rackspace Cloud > > > On 1/25/11 10:06 AM, "Andy Southgate" <andy.southg...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've recently been working at Citrix on network injection for >> XenServer. The relevant part of our work-in-progress branch is here: >> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~citrix-openstack/nova/xenapi-netinject/view/h >> ead:/nova/virt/xenapi/vm_utils.py#L514 >> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ecitrix-openstack/nova/xenapi-netinject/vie >> w/head:/nova/virt/xenapi/vm_utils.py#L514> >> >> where the method preconfigure_xenstore writes network data into >> xenstore, and the Windows guest agent (a.k.a. XenServer tools) will pick >> it up when the Windows guest boots to configure the network. An example >> of the xenstore contents can be seen here: >> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~citrix-openstack/nova/xenapi-netinject/view/h >> ead:/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py#L255 >> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ecitrix-openstack/nova/xenapi-netinject/vie >> w/head:/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py#L255> >> >> Right now this is boot-time configuration and IPv4 only. We're planning >> to add the same get-network-configuration-from-xenstore functionality to >> the XenServer Linux guest agent, but would like to check that we're not >> duplicating work. Is there another guest agent in development that >> might be doing the same thing? >> >> Yours, >> >> Andy Southgate >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-xenapi >> Post to : openstack-xenapi@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-xenapi >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-xenapi > Post to : openstack-xenapi@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-xenapi > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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