On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:40:06AM -0800, Frank Zhang wrote: > > > > > > At the moment I'm diving into OVM 3.2.1 Support in Cloudstack. I've > > noticed that only 2.3 support is in there now and found some earlier mails > > (June 2012) from people who were looking into getting 3.x support in. There > > are several paths that could be taken with the integration, my initial > > thoughts > > are to move along the lines the 2.3 implementation followed. > > > > > > My question is if anyone else is thinking about this or working on this > > > and if > > so, if it would be useful to collaborate on this? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Funs > > > > AFAIK, nobody has stepped up to "fix" OVM support in CloudStack yet.. > > and if you're willing to work on it great! > > > > Frank (cc'ed) had mentioned that he was working on it for CloudPlatform [1]. > > If that's the case, he may have working code... but it would have to be > > donated to Apache for it to be included. I'm also not sure what version of > > OVM he was working to enable. > > > > Frank - Can you comment, so that Funs is able to figure out where things > > stand? Want to collaborate with him on an Apache re-implementation? > > > > -chip > > The main reason OVM not working in ACS is about license. > I have multiple important patches to OVM agent which is LGPL licensed. > Another reason is OVM2.3 is too old, it's Domain0 kernel is 2.6.18 which is > approximately > 6 years old that cannot work properly on recent hardware(the main issue we > faced is > vconfig doesn't support some networkcard). > > Given community is starting some effort on OVM3, I would suggest focusing > on OVM3 rather than bring OVM2 back > >
Makes perfect sense to me! -chip
