Re: [Engine-devel] Is there a 'Can run this VM?' query

From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 2:06:58 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Is there a 'Can run this VM?' query ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 9:36:34 AM > Subject: [Engine-devel] Is there a 'Can run this VM?' query > > Beaker automated test system > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Beaker) > would like to integrate with the project, via the REST API. > Their main concern is that they'll provision VMs who would not be > able > to run on the ovirt setup. > I think there are two cases here: > 1. Provisioning a VM with X vCPUs, while there isn't a host > available > with such number of pCPUs (or similar in memory) - this is easier, > as > it > can be 'calculated' from the setup beforehand and we can avoid such > provisioning. > 2. More difficult - in runtime, the hosts are over-committed and we > cannot run a VM - can we, before trying to run a VM, ask if it's > feasible? I know it's a point in time, and may be wrong in the next > second, but if we go 'no' as an answer, it already provides good > information to Beaker to continue and look elsewhere. > Y. > there is no such query currently,

the answer to this question actually is lots of other questions (status, storage, host availability and more) BUT i think its rather easy creating such a query (though caller need to remember it might be a long one) > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel