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DSDP/TML/TmLusingTM
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TmL Architecture proposed over DSDP-TM platform
- This page has the purpose of give an overview about TmL Architecture and describes how we
are using and understanding the TM platform.
- We can not create a hard dependency between both project because TM has not a cleaned API yet. We hope
in future has a better convergency between these projects.
TmL Definitions
- Emulator Definition - each plugin type should be a new definition plugin. This plugin contains all classes need to create a new instance of this emulator, how the emulator read properties files and how manager instances of this emulator. The binary for the emulator is part of this plugin.
- For instance: one qemu running linux arm is a single plugin. If I need another qemu running a redhat linux I need to create another plugin with the binaries and implements some classes to provide the TmL connections for this emulator.
- Emulator Instance - each plugin definition could has different connections that we call instances. TmL creates projects into workbench to each instance and put into this project a properties file that is used to configure each instance.
- VNC Viewer - the emulator in the first time will be displayed using RFB protocol (VNC). We implement a new view to support
this service.
- Control Manager - There are a view to control the emulator and it allow the user to start and stop instances of the emulator.
- Instance View - All instances are displayed in this view.
Adapting TmL Definitions for use TM
TM uses different names for the same concepts in TmL. Here we are translate this concepts.
- Emulator Definition - It is a system type. We need create a new system type for each emulator.
- Emulator Instance - It is a host connection. There are one for each instance connected or not.
- VNC Viewer - It is a subsystem and it is associate with the system type using a subsystemconfiguration
- Control Manager - It is a subsystem too, but has the purpose of start or stop the host connection
- Instance View - In TM we use RSE view that has the same purpose