[node-devel] CIM plugin for oVirt Node

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 01/30/2012 08:45 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I guess the best is to ask Chip Vincent about those oVirt Node
> > integration issues. CIM is not always trivial to setup in a normal
> > RHEL environment, and I'm afraid nobody tried it on a read-only
> > root/stateless environment. Chip I think the expertise from some
> > of your libvirt-cim team is needed there, I guess the best is to provide
> > an image to someone knowledgeable in the set-u and have him check
> > the issues. Maybe Eduardo ro you can have a look ?
> > 
> >   thanks !
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:39:03AM -0500, Perry Myers wrote:
> >> One of the items on our backlog has been to include CIM server/providers
> >> on oVirt Node.  Initially we'll do this statically and include things
> >> like sblim, tog-pegasus, libvirt-cim as part of the core Node recipe.
> > 
> > P.S.: shouldn't only one of sblim/tog-pegasus be needed and not both ?
> >       One server should be sufficient isn't it and the goal is still
> >       to limit the size of images. Which one to pick may be the result
> >       of which one is the easier to coerce to work in root RO mode,
> >       or the smaller of the two ...
> 
> I asked Anthony about this, and he explained it to me...  sblim is both
> a collection of CIM providers as well as a server.  tog-pegasus is just
> the server.
> 
> So you can either use:
> sblim + tog-pegasus
> or
> sblim + sblim-sfcb
> 
> If you omit sfcb from the oVirt Node, then you can use tog-pegasus in
> its place.  It's also my understanding that sblim-sfcb and tog-pegasus
> are not fully interchangeable as there are some providers that will only
> work with one or the other.  So far, it seems like tog-pegasus is what
> folks want specifically, so that is what we have been focusing on.

  Ah, okay, makes it clear, thanks !

Daniel

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