Re: [Xen-API] New API Document and C Bindings

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:13:45AM -0400, Ronald Perez wrote:
> Gareth Bestor wrote on 09/15/2006 10:04:46 AM:
> 
> > I'm kinda leaning towards what Dan is thinking - right now Dom0 is 
> 'special' only 
> > because it is the one Domain given administrative control of all the 
> host 
> > resources. But if this role is effectively farmed out to future drive 
> and stub 
> > domains, and this ability can be added arbitrarily to *any* domain, then 
> 
> > effectively any domain can assume the role of a (partial) management 
> domain at any 
> > time, so we're basically left with a flat model - ie "all domains are 
> created equal" :-)
> > 
> > - Gareth
> > 
> 
> I don't think Dan and John are as far apart as Ewan's first proposal and 
> Dan's/John's proposals. I think Dan and John are saying the same thing, 
> but probably in two different languages / from two different perspectives.

We're both basically talking about how you represent the different 
capabilities of domains. John is talking in terms of a hierarchy of
classes, where one class is a sub-set of the other. I'm talking in
terms of overlapping sets which is a more general representation.

Fundamentally the important thing we all agree on is the need for a
way of expressing the differing capabilities of domains.

> If I'm wrong, someone please clarify the differences between Dan's and 
> John's proposals from both a CIM and Xen API standpoint.

We are primarily talking about how to express things in the Xen API - this
does not have to match how its expressed in CIM (provided we expose enough
information in Xen API for CIM to doing a suitable re-mapping). For example
in the Xen API we can express all domains the same way, but that doesn't
stop CIM expressing Domain-0 in a special Host class, seprate from other
guest VMs if that's appropriate for the CIM model.

Dan.
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