On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:52:17AM +0000, Armando Migliaccio wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, the ESXi support is up to date. There may be > bugs, but which virt driver is perfect ;)? > > Sateesh may know more, because he is the main contributor/maintainer from > Citrix. > > However, as Vish pointed out in a previous email, any driver is doomed to rot > if: > > a) no one is deploying OpenStack using the specific driver, thus unveiling > potential problems; > b) a pool of developers (not necessarily the first committer) keep the code > up to date, increase functionality and test coverage (both unit and > functional); > > Clearly both xenapi and libvirt are actively developed and deployed. How > about vmwareapi? Anyone? > > Let's make sure that vmwareapi is not going to be the next one to bite the > dust.
FWIW, libvirt has pretty reasonable abilities to manage VMWare ESX servers, and some very basic support for Hyper-V. It would be interesting to see if the OpenStack libvirt driver can be developed to support these targets too. If the libvirt VMWare/HyperV drivers are not currently good enough for OpenStack's needs, IMHO, it would be worth putting effort into improving libvirt. It seems like a needless duplicated effort to have the libvirt & OpenStack communities both trying to write hypervisor portability layers. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
