Including a row in hypervisor_capabilities table for 'Simulator' as hypervisor type seems to have done the trick.
Thanks again! On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, David Grizzanti < david.grizza...@sungard.com> wrote: > All, > > Thanks for the suggestions and help. I'll try out what Prasanna suggested > and let you know. > > Thanks! > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:08:11AM -0400, Chip Childers wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > >> > > The current implementation of simulator has its own limitation: the >> > > simulator itself is a separate hypervisor type, thus a lot of >> condition >> > > checks against hypervisor type in mgt server will fail if simulator >> is used. >> > > For example, currently, the zone wide primary storage only works for >> > > vmware and kvm, so if you add a zone wide primary storage into a zone >> which >> > > only has simulator as hypervisor, then you can't use that zone wide >> primary >> > > storage at all. >> > > The simulator should be able to simulate any other hypervisors, maybe >> > > fixed in 4.3? >> > > >> Some of this dependency on the hypervisor is unavoidable but will keep >> improving as the architecture allows it. OTOH, Zone-Wide primary storage >> should be easy to add to the simulator, I'll look into that. >> >> > Yeah, that's probably the best way to fix this up. Being able to have >> the >> > simulator "emulate" another HV for the orchestration logic would be >> good. >> > OTOH, I don't think we want to make this overly complex... >> >> >> The original problem posed by David about the NPE comes because of a >> config check from the `hypervisor_capabilities` table, if you include >> a row for the simulator similar to the other hypervisors then you >> should be able to get past the NPE. >> -- >> Prasanna., >> >> ------------------------ >> Powered by BigRock.com >> >> >> > > > -- > David Grizzanti > Software Engineer > Sungard Availability Services > > e: david.grizza...@sungard.com > w: 215.446.1431 > c: 570.575.0315 > -- David Grizzanti Software Engineer Sungard Availability Services e: david.grizza...@sungard.com w: 215.446.1431 c: 570.575.0315
