HP BL680c XenServer Software Development Kit Guide 4.1.0 - Page 4

Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...1 2. Getting Started ...2 2.1. System Requirements and Preparation 2 2.2. Downloading ...2 2.3. Installation ...2 2.4. What's new ...2 2.5. Content Map ...2 2.6. Building Samples for the Linux Platform 3 2.7. Building Samples for the Windows Platform 3 2.8. Running the CLI 3 2.8.1. Tab Completion 3 2.9. Accessing SDK reference 3 3. Overview of the XenServer API 5 3.1. Getting Started with the API 5 3.1.1. Authentication: acquiring a session reference 5 3.1.2. Acquiring a list of templates to base a new VM installation on 5 3.1.3. Installing the VM based on a template 6 3.1.4. Taking the VM through a start/suspend/resume/stop cycle 6 3.1.5. Logging out 6 3.1.6. "Install and start example": summary 7 3.2. Object Model Overview 7 3.3. Working with VIFs and VBDs 9 3.3.1. Creating disks and attaching them to VMs 9 3.3.2. Creating and attaching Network Devices to VMs 11 3.3.3. Host configuration for networking and storage 11 3.4. Exporting and Importing VMs 12 3.5. Where to look next 13 4. Using the API ...14 4.1. Anatomy of a typical application 14 4.1.1. Choosing a low-level transport 14 4.1.2. Authentication and session handling 14 4.1.3. Finding references to useful objects 15 4.1.4. Invoking synchronous operations on objects 15 4.1.5. Using Tasks to manage asynchronous operations 16 4.1.6. Subscribing to and listening for events 16 4.2. Language bindings 17 4.2.1. C ...17 4.2.2. C# ...18 4.2.3. Python 18 4.2.4. Command Line Interface (CLI 19 4.3. Complete application examples 19 4.3.1. Simultaneously migrating VMs using XenMotion 19 4.3.2. Cloning a VM via the XE CLI 22 5. XenServer API extensions 24 5.1. VM console forwarding 24 5.1.1. Retrieving VNC consoles via the API 24 5.1.2. Disabling VNC forwarding for Linux VM 25 5.2. Paravirtual Linux installation 26 5.2.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.1/4.4 26 5.2.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5/5.0 26 5.2.3. SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 27 4