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XenCenter
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XCP-ng Console
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[![Lines of Code](https://tokei.rs/b1/github/xenserver/xenadmin)](https://github.com/xenserver/xenadmin)
This repository contains the source code for XCP-ng Console.
This repository contains the source code for XenCenter.
XCP-ng Console is a Windows-based management tool for XCP-ng and XenServer environments
which enables users to manage and monitor XCP-ng and XenServer hosts and resource pools,
and to deploy, monitor, manage and migrate virtual machines.
XenCenter is a Windows-based management tool for Citrix Hypervisor environments,
which enables users to manage and monitor server and resource pools,
and to deploy, monitor, manage, and migrate virtual machines.
XenCenter is written mostly in C#.
XCP-ng Console. is written mostly in C#.
Contributions
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The preferable way to contribute patches is to fork the repository on Github and
then submit a pull request. If for some reason you can't use Github to submit a
pull request, then you may send your patch for review to the
xs-devel@lists.xenserver.org mailing list, with a link to a public git repository
for review. Please see the [CONTRIB](CONTRIB) file for some general guidelines
on submitting changes.
then submit a pull request. Also have a look at https://xcp-ng.org/forum.
License
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This code is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause license. Please see the
[LICENSE](LICENSE) file for more information.
How to build XenCenter
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To build XenCenter, you need
Developer Build
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* the source from xenadmin repository
* Visual Studio 2017
You need:
and also some libraries which we do not store in the source tree:
* Source of this repository
* Source of dotnet-packages (https://github.com/borzel/dotnet-packages)
* Visual Studio Community 2017
* Cygwin
* CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll
* Newtonsoft.Json.dll
* DiscUtils.dll
* ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
* Ionic.Zip.dll
* log4net.dll
You should:
You can find the source code of these libraries (along with some patches) in
[dotnet-packages](https://github.com/xenserver/dotnet-packages) repository.
* Add `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin` to PATH-Variable (buildscripts need to use MSBuild.exe from this path)
You also need NUnit libraries
### Build dotnet-packages (3rd Party Libraries)
* nunit.framework.dll
* Moq.dll
which can be obtained from <http://www.nunit.org/>.
1.) Open cygwin-Konsole
2.) `cd dotnet-packages` (root folder)
3.) `./build.sh`
4.) The libraries should now be in `_build\output`
### Build
1.) Copy content of `dotnet-packages\_build\output\dotnet46` to `<path-to-repo>\packages`
2.) (optional XCP-ng branding) Open cygwin-Konsole, execute `<path-to-repo>/branding-xcp-ng/brand-to-xcp-ng.sh`
2.) Open `XenAdmin.sln`
3.) Build and enjoy