On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > * I can't get the VDIs for a VBD (nor the VDIs for a SR). How am I
> > supposed to get the backend of a VM's vbd?
> >
> > If I call the VBD.get_VDI, I get an empty value for the ref
> > (communication attached).
>
> Is this a domain that happens to only have a ramdisk?
No, it's a domain with a single block (and net) device.
> If you create a domain with access to a disk and use xm in xen-api mode
> then does this still happen? To do this you have to activate the 'server'
> node in /etc/xen/xm-config.xml and add (xen-api-server (( 0.0.0.0:9363
> none ))) to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp.
Thanks for the tip about xen/xend-config.sxp, I'll be able, at least, to
capture and analyze the traffic. ;)
And you're correct. With xm in xen-api mode, the newly created VM has
the correct VDI entry.
> >
> > * my network object has no PIFs, is this normal?
>
> Not sure about this, though I'd say that the network should have a list of
> PIFs with at least one PIF in it, which represents 'peth0'.
Hm, I personally don't use peth0. I use a bridge with IP address and
attach the real eth0 to the bridge with my distro's usual configuration
scripts.
So then, without peth0, this is expected?
> > 1. creating a VM, vbd or a vif (pif & pbd?);
>
> Have a look at the xen-api documentation
I have following the docs/xen-api specification in xen-testing.hg, and I
even made a condensed version:
<http://ftp.gil.di.uminho.pt/pub/users/strange/xenapi.pdf>
> and on the xen-api mailing list
> where people have previously posted their examples, even though it might
> have a flaw somewhere. Even though this one here might be for PHP, it
> shows what parameters need to be passed.
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2007-10/msg00003.html
>
> Maybe this here is also helpful:
>
> http://xen.begi.net:46984/markup/xen-unstable.hg/tools/examples/xeninfo.pl
>
>
> I hope I could help.
You helped a lot, thanks.
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