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Re: [Xen-API] Change Virtual Machine environment

To: Jean-Michel Guillaume <guillauj@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] Change Virtual Machine environment
From: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:53:23 +0800
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see: VM_guest_metrics in API spec.

but there is no implement yet.

you can implement it using xenstore.

I'm working on a guest tool leveraging this API.

thanks,

zhigang

Jean-Michel Guillaume wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm currently trying to write a unified API for VM management and Xen 
> Oss is one of the softwares I've to manage.
> I first used Libvirt but it lacks some features only available on Xen 
> API, so I'm bringing my first implementation to Xen API.
> I have now to find a way to put some data programmatically into the 
> virtual machine.
> Is there any way to get this done either using Xen API or an other API 
> and how could I read back the data from the virtual machine
> (environment variables, virtual machine parameter...)?
> 
> With VMware ESX, for exemple, you can change virtual's parameters and 
> get them from the virtual thanks to the guest tools.
> 
> THX
> 
> JMi
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