[xen-tools] Argo development, was Re: Traffic accouting with xen

[Steve Kemp]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:21:40PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:

> Steve, would you mind elaborating a bit more on the mechanisms you
> plan to introduce in argo-server? What is the state of current CVS
> w.r.t. these mechanisms/changes? Thx.

  The basic server + client framework I wish to keep.

  However rather than using the custom text-based protocol I wish
 to switch everything to using an XML-RPC communication method.

  This allows clients to be constructed and maintained more easily,
 as well as allowing a better ability for the server to return
 semi-arbitary datatypes/datalengths.

  Additionally I could easily build a "reflector" allowing a
 client to query *all* the Xen hosts on the LAN, rather than just
 one.

  CVS is stalled because I'm busy, but the server conversion is
 mostly complete.  The clients are broken in that they still use the
 old method, so the system as a whole is broken until that is fixed.

  The last release still works fine, and a new release will be ready
 once the clients are updated - the won't be anything new in the
 next release just the different transport.

Steve
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