Possibility to Change listening Interface

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Hello Folks,

I have got an Alpine based Image which needs to access the xen-api. Currently in development I am using Ubuntu as BaseOs which runs the whole Stack including python and the xe tool.

My question is how could I change the listening Interface of the API to access it from another machine (Container)?

The other machine would run the Python Stack including the Python XenAPI package.

Thanks for any hints.

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Currently in development I am using Ubuntu as BaseOs which runs the whole Stack including python and the xe tool.

I don't understand what you mean by "whole Stack", could you explain it further?

My question is how could I change the listening Interface of the API to access it from another machine (Container)?

Xen api provides a jsonrpc and xmlrpc interfaces to allow remote access to the xenserver or xcp-ng host. When using the python library, the library handles the transport: https://pypi.org/project/XenAPI/

Alternatively, since you have xe available, you can send commands to a remote host using:

xe -s your-server.domain -p 443 -u root -pwf path/with/password

The other machine would run the Python Stack including the Python XenAPI package.

Maybe it's unclear but the XenAPI package is only a client library to access the xenserver or xcp-ng host.

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I made a mistake in my thinking. I thought I absolutely had to run the ansible connection via delegate_to locally. The solution was to create a container with a Red Hat base and install the XE CLI tools and your Python package in it. That made the trick.

Now I can use any Base OS for my Ansible Controller.

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