Thanks a lot. One quick question, is it likely the Windows things(XenCenter, pvdrivers, and others) open source someday as well? I just don't want to be surprised again. :)
Utter On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Dave Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark Johnson wrote: > > Other than the GUI, what will remained closed source in the > > XenServer product? i.e. are there any extensions to the cli, > > xapi? Any additional libs not present in xen-api-libs.hg? > > Any extensions to blktap? > > At present a few server-side pieces are not open-source. These are (from > memory): > 1. the heartbeat/liveset management daemon which is needed for HA (xapi > talks to this via a simple interface) > 2. some 3rd party FC tools > 3. a few storage backends (NetApp, EQL and StorageLink) > > Some pieces of the XenServer product (eg 'Workload Balancing') are actually > off-box windows services which talk to xapi via the API. These are closed. > > > I assume things like the p2v and v2v tools will remain > > closed source... > > Actually there is some basic linux P2V stuff in there: the install CD > doubles as a P2V client, which uploads to a special 'P2V' VM > (xen-api.hg/ocaml/p2v/p2v.ml) > > Cheers, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >
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