VM Server for SPARC (LDOM v2)

I posted this thread under the Solaris Development forum but that may not be the right place. Hopefully I am posting this in the correct location...
I am trying to locate an API for interacting (read CRUD) with Oracle's VM Server for SPARC (LDOM v2). I found a few references HERE that pointed to a few libraries such as libuuid and liv12n; however, these do not appear to offer anything substantial (e.g. trivial queries about chassis serial number). To rephrase the question, how do I programmatically create, read, update, and delete Logical Domains? If someone could point me in the right direction, that would be fantastic.
Thanks, Dave

The stable interface for doing this is the XML XMPP Interface provided by the LDoms Manager daemon (ldmd) - this is how 3rd party Apps, etc do it.
Appendix D in the Admin Guide give examples of the types of messages you could send to ldmd.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-1485/usingxmlinterfacewithldomsmgr

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