[Engine-devel] [RFC] new power management protocol "libvirtp"

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:15:44AM +0800, Shu Ming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In oVirt environment, power manager should be enabled for the host to
> support VM high availability in the cluster. Various kinds of
> physical power management protocol are supported, ie., ALOM, ILO&etc.
> However, when the oVirt is running on a nested KVM
> environment, there is no feasible way to do the power management of the
> VDSM host(also a KVM virtual machine). A new protocol
> will be based on libvirt to achieve the power management of a virtual
> host. The new protocol can be named as "libvirtp".
> 
> In oVirt engine, a new type will be added to
> 
> power management---> type libvirtp
> power management--->address it will be the IP of the physical host where
> the virtual VDSM host is on when "libvirtp" is selected
> power management--->user name it will be the user name to the libvirtd
> service
> power management--->password it will be the password to the libvirtd service
> power management--->port it will be the port to the libvirtd service

Have you looked into fence_virsh or fence_virt ? Don't they provide
what you want?