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

On 01/09/2012 09:36 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > 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. what about using the new quota feature to define a quota which will not overload the server and serve as a measure of SLA for them?