+1!! On Feb 6, 2012 5:38 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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 >
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