From: "Francesco Romani" <fromani(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Adam Litke" <alitke(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Martin Polednik" <mpoledni(a)redhat.com&gt;, devel(a)ovirt.org Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 9:26:49 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [vdsm] Unifying VM device representations ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Litke" <alitke(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Martin Polednik" <mpoledni(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: devel(a)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, -- Francesco Romani RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: 8261328 IRC: fromani