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+Xen API C Bindings
+==================
+
+This distribution is the source code to the proposed Xen API C bindings.
+
+The Xen API project will define an XML-RPC protocol for remote and local
+management of Xen-based systems, and a set of bindings for these XML-RPC calls
+into a number of languages (this package contains those to the C language).
+
+The intention is to standardise these XML-RPC calls, and then the Xen project
+will guarantee that that wire protocol will be supported for the long term.
+The bindings will also be supported in the Xen tree, giving a stable
+foundation for Xen management tools and middlewares, in particular the Xen CIM
+providers and libvirt.
+
+THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.  The API and bindings are under active design and
+development, and this is a snapshot release for developers only.  Both the API
+and the C bindings are scheduled to be stabilised by the Xen 3.0.4 release
+i.e. October 2006 at the earliest.
+
+These bindings are open-source (LGPL), and will be committed as libraries to
+the Xen trees for all to use after the Xen 3.0.3 release.
+
+We welcome any discussion about this library and the API in general.  Please
+join the Xen-API mailing list if you are interested in this project. I (Ewan
+Mellor) will collate all the feedback from that list and push out new versions
+of the document and the bindings as and when.
+
+
+URLs
+----
+
+Xen-API wiki page:
+http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi
+
+Xen-API mailing list:
+  http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+The bindings depend upon libxml2, the XML toolkit from the GNOME project; the
+test program depends upon libcurl3 also.  On Debian, you need the packages
+libxml2-dev and libcurl3-dev.
+
+To compile, type make.
+
+To run the test, do
+
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH=src ./test/test_bindings <url> <username> <password>
+
+where <url> is the fragment of the server URL that follows the http://, for
+example "localhost:8005/RPC2".