[libvirt] libvirt vs XenAPI

[atif bajwa]

Thanks Rich,

My original question has two parts
1. I want to access the host (a xen-based-hypervisor with libvirt server
intalled) from windows client.
2. List of distributions supported by libvirt as server. The list refers to
this part of question.

So part of my question is still unanswered. Is the list provided for libvirt
servers (or libvirt managed hosts) is correct?

Regards,
Atif

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:58:09PM +0200, atif bajwa wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com
> >wrote:
> > > To address another point, we'll have better support for Windows in
> > > future (ie. you won't need to build it from source).  The dependency
> > > is this project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/MinGW
> > > See also: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TodoWindowsSupport
> >
> > Thanks but does libvirt support windows port with any released build or
> not?
>
> You can compile libvirt (client only) on Windows -- see Atsushi's
> previous email for links to how to do this.
>
> If you follow this link you will see the current status of Windows
> builds (ie, binaries that you can download from libvirt.org):
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TodoWindowsSupport
>
> > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:06:07PM +0200, atif bajwa wrote:
> > > > 1. Solaris SPARC 81/9/10
> > > > 2. Solaris x64/x86 9/10
> > > > 3. Red Hat RHEL AS/ES/WS 3/4/5
> > > > 4. Novell SUSE & SLES 8/9/10
> > >
> > > Those should all be supported as libvirt clients.
> >
> > I am little surprised "should be?". I need to make a decision to use
> libvirt
> > or Xen API, (clearly runnable from windows) . If libvirt does windows
> port,
> > which of the following distributions "are" supported [...]
>
> "should be" as in, we haven't compiled it on every single one of
> those, but since they are all Un*x distributions, there should be no
> problem.  If you find a problem, please post about it on the mailing
> list.
>
> If you want commercial support, Red Hat support libvirt client &
> server on RHEL 5, and I guess we either do now or could in the future
> support libvirt client on RHEL 3/4 too (talk to Red Hat sales or your
> account manager).  Solaris and SUSE are supported by Sun and Novell
> respectively, so you would need to talk to them.
>
> > as remote hosts.
>
> I'm a bit confused by what you mean here though.  For example RHEL 3/4
> don't have any support for virtualization of the host, so there
> wouldn't be any point in running them as libvirtd servers.  Unless you
> are compiling qemu on them or something like that.
>
> Libvirt as a client and libvirt(d) as a server are completely
> different things.
>
> Rich.
>
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