[Engine-devel] watchdog

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:33:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] watchdog
> 
> Good that you have come up with this! So we will make sure to keep this info.
> Thnx for coming up with it!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:25:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] watchdog
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:02:16 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] watchdog
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:56:32 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] watchdog
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Isnt someone already working on removing the UI distinction between
> > > > server
> > > > and desktop?
> > > Indeed :)
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > However the desktop/server distinction could be useful for scheduling
> > > > information, I hope that will remain.
> > > There will be a combo box: "optimized for server/desktop". That one
> > > will set up the dialog like you would open the new server/desktop today.
> > > But you will be able to change them - it will be just some sugar. But
> > > there
> > > is no reason
> > > why would we enforce the disabling the e.g. soundcard for server. By
> > > default
> > > we will, but
> > > you can enable it if you want.
> > 
> > Ok, so in engine we will still have the VmType in vmStatic?
> > 
> > I think it would make sense to use it in scheduling / load balancing
> > - if a VM is a desktop and no user is connected to the console, then the VM
> > is not in use, therefore it is a good candidate for saving power
> > (hibernate,
> > migrate, shutdown, or any other bad things that can happen to a VM)
> > - if a VM is a server, usually no user connected, but it may still be used
> > through its network. Therefore it may not be a good candidate to migrate.

is this indeed a valid assumption ("if VM is a server..." ) that a user will less connect to it?


> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > > > > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "Andrew Cathrow"
> > > > > <acathrow at redhat.com>
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:38:15 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] watchdog
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 04/10/2013 04:59 PM, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A new version of the watchdög feature is available in gerrit:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/13057 - db
> > > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/13058 - bll
> > > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/13059 - frontend
> > > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/13060 - rest
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Watchdog_engine_support
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since the last update the patchset has gone through major changes
> > > > > > to
> > > > > > meet
> > > > > > the new architectureal and functional requirements.
> > > > > > Also because of the rewrite this is again a preview version under
> > > > > > testing
> > > > > > with some missing functionality, therefore I re-introduced the
> > > > > > [wip]
> > > > > > flag
> > > > > > on it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thx,
> > > > > > Laszlo
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> > > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > just a thought after looking at the feature page having different HA
> > > > > dialog for server/desktop - I'd consider removing the distinction
> > > > > between desktop and server in the GUI wrt HA (i.e., just both have
> > > > > same
> > > > > set of options)
> > > > > 
> > > > > (not blocking for this patch)
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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