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[Chris Behrens <chris.behrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  I was going to pose the same question:  where should this go? :)

I'm currently working on the 'xs-guest-agent' blueprint which involves clean up with the current Rackspace linux agent.  While this agent currently only supports Linux on XenServer (because of some Linux specific calls and communication via XenStore), some of the work I'm doing will make it more portable (so that it'll work on *BSD, too) and will modularize the communication mechanism.  This will allow the XenStore communication to be swapped out in favor of something else not Xen specific.

That said, I'm not sure the main code base should live in a 'xen_server' subdirectory as suggested below.  Modifying the below, I'd perhaps suggest:

/tools/guest_agent/unix for the main unix agent code base.  Subdirectories could exist under there for different communication modules.

Windows might be different, as it is definitely XenServer specific... maybe, /tools/guest_agent/windows/xen_server

(As a side note, I wonder if we want move to sharing some common code between Windows and Unix agents which would further impact the directory structure :)

- Chris


On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Paul Voccio wrote:

> All,
> 
> After discussing this among some small groups that are working with XenServer, we've decided we probably should pull in our guest agent code so others can look at it and start using it and building on it. Today, this code is XenServer specific, but long term I think we need to figure out where to put the code in the Nova codebase. I might suggest /tools/guest_agent/xen_server/ but am open. We have Windows 2003/2008 code and Linux code so we'll need to include build instructions for both in the directories. 
> 
> So the question I want to pose to the community is if they are interested in the code, where should it go and how should we move forward on extending it? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
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