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| ==== The Toolstacks: xm (xend), xl (xenlight/libxl), xe (XAPI/XCP) ==== | ==== The Toolstacks: xm (xend), xl (xenlight/libxl), xe (XAPI/XCP) ==== | ||
| - | > The Toolstack is a set of programs used to manage all domains on a host and to generally tell the Xen Hypervisor what to do. As you know, the primary toolstacks of choice are xe(XAPI/XCP), xl(xenlight/libxl), and xm(xend). | + | > The Toolstack is a set of programs used to manage all domains on a host and to generally tell the Xen Hypervisor what to do. [...] The primary toolstacks of choice are xe(XAPI/XCP), xl(xenlight/libxl), and xm(xend). |
| > There exist other tools that talk to the various toolstacks and provide another layer of abstraction. The most well known of these is libvirt. | > There exist other tools that talk to the various toolstacks and provide another layer of abstraction. The most well known of these is libvirt. | ||
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| > Not too long ago(ok, maybe awhile ago), xen hypervisor development was taken over by the linux foundation, which opened up a lot of doors as far as development was concerned. The most important things that you need to know are: | > Not too long ago(ok, maybe awhile ago), xen hypervisor development was taken over by the linux foundation, which opened up a lot of doors as far as development was concerned. The most important things that you need to know are: | ||
| - | > 1. xm is going away. This limits your future-proof toolstack choices to xl(libxl) or xapi. | + | > 1. <color darkslateblue>**xm (Xend) is going away**</color>. This limits your future-proof toolstack choices to xl(libxl) or xapi. |
| > 2. The xapi toolstack is working towards building xapi on top of libxl. | > 2. The xapi toolstack is working towards building xapi on top of libxl. | ||
| - | **This is important to note:** xm is deprecated and **it has been removed from Xen 4.5+ !** | + | <color darkorange>**Important Note:**</color> xm (Xend) is deprecated and <color darkslateblue>**it has been removed from Xen 4.5+ !**</color> |
| ==== the xl toolstack ==== | ==== the xl toolstack ==== | ||
