[node-devel] CIM support in oVirt Node

[Chip Vincent]

On 02/29/2012 07:27 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:17:43PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
>> Adding others who have commented on cim previously.
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:10 -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
>>> Based on discussions with various people, we decided to go forward with
>>> sblim-sfcb over tog-pegasus as the cim provider in ovirt-node.  I'm
>>> working on setting the patches to add this support to ovirt-node and
>>> I've already hit the first issue.
>>>
>>> libvirt-cim requires tog-pegasus.  Is this actually a hard requirement?
>>> Can this be changed to some generic "Requires cim" that both tog-pegasus
>>> and sblim-sfcb could provide?  If not, are there any issues with us
>>> blacklisting tog-pegasus?
> I'm pretty sure I heard/read Chip say in the past that they used sblim
> in regression testing :-) I think the Require is the result of RHEL
> packaging where tog-pegasus was the only one present. Also I don't
> know (but might exist) any construct allowing

You're correct that libvirt-cim should work with SFCB, but it's been quite a 
while since any real testing has been done with it since almost all of our 
clients today use tog-pegasus. It's safe to assume there will be some bugs 
integrating the latest libvirt-cim with the latest SFCB CIMOM.

> Requires: tog-pegasus or sblim-sfcb
>
> as you said the only way in rpm is to define a generic provide
> (maybe more specific than just 'cim' what about 'cim-server') then
> Requires: cim-server
> in the libvirt-cim and add the Provides: cim-server in all server
> packages. The only problem with that is that we ultimately need to
> "fix" all packages.
>
> The first thing would be to make bug requests against tog-pegasus
> sblim-sfcb to have that added. Unfortunately I don't think we can
> get this in RHEL-6.3 at this point...
>
> Daniel
>


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Chip Vincent
Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
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