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

[Eric Lemoine]

On 8/21/06, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Clear. Thanks for your response.


-- 
Eric