On Mar 18, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer > to any XenAPI based implementation. With the recent release of Xen Project > 4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and > interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our > Xen support could be confusing. In this two part effort I propose that > CloudStack 4.4 be cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become > XenServer references, and second that an alternate hypervisor type of > "XenProject" be introduced for pure Xen which could either support libvirt > or libxl (preference for libvirt given the 4.4 work to improve the > interface and broader support for libvirt in general). >
+1 in general, I am not sure what would be best between libvirt and libxl though. but as you know there might be a quick path to reuse the KVM agent and use libvirt to interact with xenproject > Cross posted to users to for broader comment. > > -tim
