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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:00:10PM +0800, hackxay wrote:
Hi.
When we add a new host,engine can installed the vdsm on the host and vdsm can call the
interface of libvirt.
The libvirt support VirtualBox.But the VDSM uses qemu-kvm.
I want to let vdsm can use libvirt to call the interface of VitualBox.
Thank you.
This would make a great feature (and I'd add Linux container to the list), but
it's an expensive one. Introducing it into vdsm is a challange. But the complex
part is maintaining and testing it for years to come.
Personally, I'd prefer to focus on KVM. Higer in my portability wishlist are
non-Fedora distribution and non-x86_64 cpus. However if someone volunteers to
port vdsm to another technology (and maintain the code so that it does not
rot), I would be delighted.
Dan.
1:45 a.m.
New subject: [Users] Adding VMware (was Re: Could I add the VirtualBox to the oVirt?)
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On 11/08/2013 01:00 AM, hackxay wrote:
Hi.
When we add a new host,engine can installed the vdsm on the host and
vdsm can call the interface of libvirt.
The libvirt support VirtualBox.But the VDSM uses qemu-kvm.
I want to let vdsm can use libvirt to call the interface of VitualBox.
I agree that it is unfortunate that we have limited the power of libvirt
in terms of the number of backends it can manage when integrating it
into oVirt.**Extending to VirtualBox would be an interesting project,
but I'm not sure how valuable it would be. As a long-time user of
VirtualBox I found it to be slower than KVM. I guess it could allow
people to use non-Linux Nodes. Like Dan said, a lot of work there so the
payoff would have to be big enough to justify it.
On the other hand, I think it would have far greater impact in terms of
number of use cases/users if we expanded VDSM to manage VMware ESX.
VMware is still arguably the market leader for virtualization. At the
very least, this would then provide a migration path for anybody wanting
to move away from VMware to oVirt (or, perhaps, visa-versa if we don't
do a good enough job with oVirt ;). Since the Nodes would effectively
still be restricted to Linux the task should be easier than e.g.
supporting a Node consisting of Windows+VirtualBox. As with VirtualBox,
there's no SPICE capability for VMware, so in addition to the VDSM work
the User Portal should be extended to support e.g. VMware Horizon View
Client.
-Bob
P.S. If we *did* support VirtualBox, the User Portal should be extended
to broker VNC connections since that's one way to connect to a console
with VBox. That wouldn't be a bad project in itself, and would have
value even without VirtualBox.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/08/2013 01:00 AM, hackxay
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installed the vdsm on the host and vdsm can call the interface
of libvirt.</font></div>
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VirtualBox.But
the VDSM uses qemu-kvm.</font></div>
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can use libvirt
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I agree that it is unfortunate that we have limited the power of
libvirt in terms of the number of backends it can manage when
integrating it into oVirt.<b> </b>Extending to VirtualBox would be
an interesting project, but I'm not sure how valuable it would be.
As a long-time user of VirtualBox I found it to be slower than KVM.
I guess it could allow people to use non-Linux Nodes. Like Dan said,
a lot of work there so the payoff would have to be big enough to
justify it.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, I think it would have far greater impact in terms
of number of use cases/users if we expanded VDSM to manage VMware
ESX. VMware is still arguably the market leader for virtualization.
At the very least, this would then provide a migration path for
anybody wanting to move away from VMware to oVirt (or, perhaps,
visa-versa if we don't do a good enough job with oVirt ;). Since the
Nodes would effectively still be restricted to Linux the task should
be easier than e.g. supporting a Node consisting of
Windows+VirtualBox. As with VirtualBox, there's no SPICE capability
for VMware, so in addition to the VDSM work the User Portal should
be extended to support e.g. VMware Horizon View Client.<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
<br>
P.S. If we *did* support VirtualBox, the User Portal should be
extended to broker VNC connections since that's one way to connect
to a console with VBox. That wouldn't be a bad project in itself,
and would have value even without VirtualBox.<br>
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