[Pkg-xen-devel] XCP and OpenXenCenter

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at debian.org
Tue Jul 5 08:53:07 UTC 2011


Hello Mike,

On 07/01/2011 07:05 PM, Mike McClurg wrote:
> Hi Ritesh,
> 
> I'm one of the developers working on the Debian port of XenAPI. We've
> made some good progress and have a working prototype of the software,
> and we are preparing to start packaging. As Pasi said, this has been a
> purpose-built appliance and not a standalone application, so it's
> taking some time to refactor our software to comply with Debian
> packaging rules.
> 

Yes, I noticed that at: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Roadmap

By that roadmap, you should be almost done. So, your port of XenAPI will
work with the Debian shipped Xen Kernel ?


> In addition to new packages that we'll be making, we will need the
> OCaml libraries from the Xen distribution built as a product of the
> Xen source Debian package. We have a prototype of this, but we're not
> expert Debian packages. If anyone feels like giving us a hand with
> this, we'd really appreciate it. If you'd like, we can submit our
> current patches to this list for review, though they're unacceptable
> at the moment. Thanks for the interest in XenAPI,

I can volunteer here. I might not be very quick with responses but I
definitely have interest in Xen.

I looked at the site but couldn't find the debian packaging work
anywhere. Can you share it?



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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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