Re: [ovirt-devel] [vdsm] Unifying VM device representations
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Litke" <alitke(a)redhat.com>
To: "Martin Polednik" <mpoledni(a)redhat.com>
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,
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Francesco Romani
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