Awesome! I am so excited to try this out! This will save me a fortune in KVM-over-IP costs since I'm not fortunate to have my own data centre :)
Please keep up the good work - this is a great step in the right direction. p.s. Will these xapi packages work with Xen 4+, Remus etc ? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mike McClurg <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Xen users, > > The XCP team would like to formally announce Project Kronos, our port of > XCP's XenAPI toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu dom0. This will give users > the ability to install Debian or Ubuntu, and then just do 'apt-get xapi' > in order to build a system that is (roughly) functionally equivalent to > a standard XCP distribution. > > This project provides a number of benefits. First of all, it will > provide Xen users with the option of using the same API and toolstack > that XCP and XenServer provide. It will give early adopters the chance > to try out new changes to the XenAPI before they get released in new XCP > and XenServer versions. And because we've ported all of our toolstack to > build on Debian, it's now much, much easier to build our tools outside > of an SDK VM. > > Our general roadmap for this project (and XCP in general) can be found > here: > > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XCP_Roadmap > > Instructions for install the XenAPI toolstack on Debian can be found here: > > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian > > A list of project milestones, deliverables for each milestone, and > individual work items for the project can be found on this Google Docs > spreadsheet: > > http://goo.gl/jX3Kc > > For building the toolstack from source, Jon Ludlam has an autobuilder > repository on github here: > > https://github.com/jonludlam/xapi-autobuilder > > To use it, just clone the repository and type make. This will pull in > all the dependency repositories and build them using pbuilder. If you > want to build individual packages, dig into the build scripts a bit to > see what's going on -- hopefully we'll have a little better > documentation soon. > > Please follow the instructions and play along! This is very much a work > in progress, and things are expected to change rapidly. We don't expect > everything to work properly yet, but we think it's ready enough to at > least share our progress. If you do decide to test this out, please > report any bugs you find or problems you encounter to the xen-api > mailing list, with the subject line "Xapi on Debian: <blah>". There are > also XCP contributors lurking on #xen-api on freenode who may be able to > answer questions about build or install problems. > > Thanks to everyone who's helped out with this project, and to everyone > who is about to give it a try. Happy hacking! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >
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