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diff --git a/docs/xen-api/todo.tex b/docs/xen-api/todo.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 615a5e57da..0000000000 --- a/docs/xen-api/todo.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,135 +0,0 @@ -% -% Copyright (c) 2006 XenSource, Inc. -% -% Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under -% the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later -% version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -% Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the -% license is included in the section entitled -% "GNU Free Documentation License" or the file fdl.tex. -% -% Authors: Ewan Mellor, Richard Sharp, Dave Scott, Jon Harrop. -% - -\section{To-Do} - -Lots and lots! Including: - -\subsection{Clarity} - -\begin{itemize} - -\item Roll constructors and get\_by\_uuid etc (section 1.2) into section 2 so -that it is clearer that each class has these. - -\item Emphasise that enums are strings on the wire, and so are not restricted -to a certain number of bits. - -\item Clarify return values, in particular that void means return a status -code, potential error description, but otherwise no value. - -\item Talk about UUID generation. - -\item Clarify session behaviour wrt timeouts and disconnects. - -\item Clarify behaviour of progress field on asynchronous request polling when -that request fails. - -\item Clarify which calls have asynchronous counterparts by marking them as such in the reference. (Individual getters and setters are too small and quick to justify having async versions) - -\end{itemize} - -\subsection{Content} - -\subsubsection{Model} - -\begin{itemize} - -\item Improve the set of available power\_states and corresponding lifecycle -semantics. Rename power\_state, maybe. - -\item Specify the CPU scheduler configuration properly, inc CPU affinity, -weights, etc. - -\item Add Vm.architecture and Host.compatible\_architecture fields. - -\item Add migration calls, including the ability to test whether a migration -will succeed, and authentication token exchange. - -\item Improve asynchronous task handling, with a registration call, a -``blocking poll'' call, and an explicit notification destination. Registration -for ``power\_state'' is useful. - -\item Specify that session keys outlive the HTTP session, and add a timeout -for them (configurable in the tools). - -\item Add places for people to store extra data (``otherConfig'' perhaps) - -\item Specify how hardware UUIDs are used / accessed. - -\item Marking VDIs as exclusive / shareable (locking?) - -\item Consider how to represent CDROMs (as VDIs?) - -\item Define lists of exceptions which may be thrown by each RPC, including -error codes and parameters. - -\item Host characteristics: minimum amount of memory, TPM, network bandwidth, -amount of host memory, amount consumed by VMs, max amount available for new -VMs? - -\item Cooked resource monitoring interface. - -\item Network needs additional attributes that provide media characteristics -of the NIC: - -\begin{itemize} - -\item RO bandwidth integer Bandwidth in mbps -\item RO latency integer time in ms for an icmp roundtrip to a host on the -same subnet. - -\end{itemize} - -\item ACM -\begin{itemize} - -\item A Xen system can be running an access control policy where each -VM's run-time access to resources is restricted by the label it has been given -compared to those of the resources. Currently a VM's configuration file may -contain a line like access\_control[policy='$<$name of the system's -policy$>$',label='$<$label given to VM$>$']. I think the identifiers 'policy' -and 'label' should also be part of the VM class either directly in the form -'access\_control/policy' or indirectly in an access\_control class. - -\end{itemize} - -\item Mike Day's Vm.profile field? - -\item Clone customisation? - -\item NIC teaming? The NIC field of the Network class should be a list (Set) -so that we can signify NIC teaming. (Combining physical NICs in a single host -interface to achieve greater bandwidth). - -\end{itemize} - -\subsubsection{Transport} - -\begin{itemize} - -\item Allow non-HTTP transports. Explicitly allow stdio transport, for SSH. - -\end{itemize} - -\subsubsection{Authentication} - -\begin{itemize} - -\item Delegation to the transport layer. - -\item Extend PAM exchange across the wire. - -\item Fine-grained access control. - -\end{itemize} |