xenapi-1.0.6(Xen Management API)

This document contains a description of the Xen Management API—an interface for remotely configuring and controlling virtualised guests running on a Xen-enabled host. The API is presented here as a set of Remote Procedure Calls, with a wire format based upon XML-RPC. No specific language bindings are prescribed, although examples will be given in the python programming language. Although we adopt some terminology from object-oriented programming, future client language bindings may or may not be object oriented. The API reference uses the terminology classes and objects. For our purposes a class is simply a hierarchical namespace; an object is an instance of a class with its fields set to specific values. Objects are persistent and exist on the server-side. Clients may obtain opaque references to these server-side objects and then access their fields via get/set RPCs.