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?

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

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roy Golan&quot;&lt;rgolan(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Omer Frenkel&quot;&lt;ofrenkel(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org, "Yaniv Kaul&quot;&lt;ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 2:21:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Is there a 'Can run this VM?' query > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Omer Frenkel&quot;&lt;ofrenkel(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "Yaniv Kaul&quot;&lt;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&quot;&lt;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, > if we're going to supply one, we either encapsulate the canDoAction > to a class and re-use or > supply a boolean argument on the parameter class, say "dryRun", to > indicate command doesn't > perform the execute part realy. yep, RunVmCommand.CanRunVm() is public and static, return boolean and even fill list messages. this is why i said i think its easy to do it :) just need to check it really covers anything and behave well