[ovirt-devel] [vdsm] Unifying VM device representations

[Francesco Romani]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Litke" <alitke at redhat.com>
> To: "Martin Polednik" <mpoledni at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:20:33 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] [vdsm] Unifying VM device representations
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I noticed that you are working on some patches to refactor the VM
> devices and deprecate self.conf['devices'].  I am a big fan of this
> because my Live Merge code is far more complex than it should be since
> some information lives in self.conf['devices'] and some lives in
> self.devices.

I'm very interested in those patches as well and I'd like to join
the effort, but see below.

> Are you planning on changing the recovery code save/recovery of
> vm.conf to work with the new device container you are creating?

This will be indeed a nice thing to have.

> It would be nice to get my code working entirely independent of
> self.conf['devices'] if possible.  Also, when are you aiming to have
> this work completed?  Live Merge is needed for 3.5.  Will this work be
> ready before then?

Unfortunately I don't think the VmContainer patch can make it for 3.5
since the merge window is closing quite fast.
I think we have realistically something like 2-3 days left to have it merged
and AFAIK there is still quite some work to do to achieve that,
including a not-trivial rebase.

I think we can have it merged for 3.6.

Bests,

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Francesco Romani
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