libxenserver
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Version 6.2.0-1.

libxenserver is a complete SDK for Citrix XenServer, exposing the XenServer
API to C programmers.

For XenServer documentation, see http://docs.xensource.com. 
libxenserver includes a C function call for each XenServer API call, so API
documentation and examples written for for other languages can be easily
mapped to C. In particular, the SDK Guide and API Documentation are ideal
for developers wishing to use libxenserver.

libxenserver comes with the usual complexities inherent with programming
in C, and it is recommended that you study the test programs carefully
to understand the approach to error reporting and memory management taken
by this library.

For community content, blogs, and downloads, visit the XenServer Developer
Network at http://community.citrix.com/cdn/xs.

libxenserver is free sofware. You can redistribute and modify it under the
terms of the BSD license. See COPYING for details.

This library may be accompanied by pedagogical examples. These do not form
part of this library, and are licensed for redistribution and modification
under the BSD license. Such examples are licensed clearly at the top
of each file.

Dependencies
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This library is dependent upon libxml2, the XML toolkit from the GNOME
project, by Daniel Veillard, et al.  This can be obtained from
http://xmlsoft.org/.

The test programs are dependent also upon libcurl3, by Daniel Stenberg, et al.
This can be downloaded from http://curl.haxx.se/. You may choose to use
libcurl3 in your application, just as we have for the test programs, though
it's not required to do so, and you may use a different network layer if you
prefer.

On Debian, these are packaged as libxml2-dev and libcurl3-dev.


Downloads
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libxenserver is available in the XenServer-6.2.0-SDK.zip in two separate
folders, one for the compiled binaries, and one for the source code.
The binaries are compiled for the XenServer SDK virtual machine, and we
recommend compiling from source if you wish to use the library in a
different environment.

The XenServer-6.2.0-SDK.zip is available from
http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenserver/.


Compiling from Source
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To build, simply type "make" in the libxenserver directory.

To run any of the tests, for example the test_vm_ops, do

./test/test_vm_ops <url> <sr-name> <username> <password>

The <url> should be of the form: https://hostname.domain/

You can obtain a suitable <sr-name> by typing in "xe sr-list" on the host, e.g.:
"Auto-created spanning LVM SR on /dev/sda3"