[Engine-devel] cluster emulation mode feature

Roy Golan rgolan at redhat.com
Thu Jun 6 09:33:26 UTC 2013


On Thu 06 Jun 2013 10:20:30 AM IDT, Omer Frenkel wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Roy Golan" <rgolan at redhat.com>
>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:17:54 AM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] cluster emulation mode feature
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A new wiki has been published on Cluster Emulation mode
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Cluster_emulation_modes
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roy
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>
> maybe better to name host field as supported_emulated_machines - since it holds the list of supported as reported from vdsm.
>
will change if this seems clearer
> the following is a copy from the wiki
> "
> consider this pseudo-code:
>
> operational = false
> if cluster.emulationMode == NULL
>   for configVal in Config.ClusterEmulationMode(3.3)
>      if configVal in host.emulationModes
>          cluster.emulationMode = configVal
>          operational = true
>   else if clusterEmulationMode in host.emulationMode
>         operational = true
> if (!operational)
>      set host non operationl, reason = UNSUPPORTED_EMULATION_MODE
> "
>
> first, i guess where you write '3.3' its actually should be 'cluster.compatibility'
yes its just a visual notion of the version
> another thing, the configuration will probably have more than 1 option for emulated machine,
> for example 3.3 rhel could have {(for EL-)RHEL6.4.0,RHEL6.3.0,..,(for other-)pc-1.3,pc-1.2..}
> we need to make sure the list is used ordered so that the greatest value will be first,
> since if host supports many, the latest will be used.
> in cpu-flags there is a specific number to do this order, maybe same approach can be taken here,
> as i'm not sure the RHEL/pc values are consistent (on my f18 i also have 'pc-i440fx-1.4')
isn't the order of the list enough?





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