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From: "Adam Litke" <alitke@redhat.com> To: "Martin Polednik" <mpoledni@redhat.com> Cc: devel@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