ruby-xen

# Warning! Not ready yet - project started Sep 2008

DESCRIPTION:

ruby-xen is a ruby library for managing Xen virtual servers. It currently wraps the command line tools provided by Xen (xm) as well as Steve Kemps excellent Xen-tools [www.xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/].

ruby-xen is packaged as a Rails Gem which means you can require it from a Ruby on Rails project and make use of the classes it provides.

ruby-xen can also be used by ruby code or from irb.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

FIX (list of features or problems)

SYNOPSIS:

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-xen'

slice = Xen::Slice.find(:example)
slice.running? # true
slice.stop
slice.running? # false
slice.start
slice.running? # true

REQUIREMENTS:

ruby-xen must be run as root as it uses Xen’s ‘xm’ command. xen-tools must be installed (www.xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/)

INSTALL:

sudo gem install ruby-xen

LICENSE:

ruby-xen is licenced under the GPL. This means that you can use it in commercial or open source applications. More details found here: www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.