Dear all:

        The release of openstack on my server is D3. I tred to run ' qemu-kvm 
-hda /root/free.img -m 512 -vga qxl -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing '

without openstack , it worked well.

However,I have tried to modify the 
'/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt.xml.template' in order to  let the spice 
work with the openstack. Then it failed.

        Is there anyone tried this? Could you give me some help? Thanks.

Yours.

Suyi

 

发件人: openstack-bounces+wangsuyi640=gmail....@lists.launchpad.net 
[mailto:openstack-bounces+wangsuyi640=gmail....@lists.launchpad.net] 代表 Devin 
Carlen
发送时间: 2012年3月10日 7:00
收件人: Mark Collier
抄送: foundat...@lists.openstack.org; OpenStack
主题: Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

 

Mark, one thing that I am curious about - there doesn't seem to be language in 
the foundation structure document that would prevent "individual" members from 
organizations that are also "strategic" members from also being on the board.   
Is there any language that prevents board stacking? 

 

Devin

On Friday, March 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mark Collier wrote:

Josh,

 

Thanks for taking the time to consider the proposed structure and provide your 
thoughts on it.  I don't think your concerns are very far off from what we are 
wanting to address with the Associate Member category, which allows more 
companies to be represented at a lower price point.  The current funding 
proposal is on the wiki for reference: 
http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Funding

 

Let me address a few of your points regarding the proposed plan:

 

Accessibility:  Associate Member fees start at $50k/year which is substantially 
lower than a $200k/year flat fee model.  The members will elect resprenstatives 
as a class to the Board.  Those Board members will have the same roles and 
responsibilities as any other Board member. Additionally, companies who wish to 
show their support for OpenStack may also become a sponsor without paying the 
full Associate Member fee.  Sponsor levels have not been worked out, but I 
suspect they will start in the 20k/year range.

 

Board Size:  My sense is that with a flat fee of 200k/year, we would still get 
many more than 15-20 interested parties, which would quickly overwhelm the 
board, making it unmanageable.  The Associate Member concept mitigates this 
issue by allowing the class to grow (for accessibility), without the seats 
balooning, by having elected representatives.  It also reduces the risk of 
shaking up the board makeup and size through acquisition.

 

Strategic Member fees:  One small clarification: the proposal calls for 
Strategic Members to make a commitment of $500k/year for 5 years, paid annually 
(not up front). This figure was driven primarily by the need to arrive at a 
reasonable board size, while also raising substantial funds for foundation 
operations.

 

Strategic Member dominance:  Board members who are appointed by Strategic 
Members will make up only 1/3 of the board, and will have the same roles and 
responsibilties as the other board members.  

 

Requirement for Strategic Members to have full time staff:  The current 
structure proposal states that Strategic Members must "Provide dedicated 
resources (e.g. developers, legal resources)" and the funding proposal states 
that "...the general expectation is a resource commitment that is consistent 
with staffing two full time equivalents" so it looks like we are on the same 
page re: 2 FTE requirement.

 

I hope many other folks take the opporunity to weigh in, both on this mailing 
list as well as in the webinars we'll be holding next week and in any other 
forum that suits your fancy.  I'll also try to keep up with all of the blogging 
and tweeting, as if that's possible!

 

Mark

 

 

 

From: Joshua McKenty <jos...@pistoncloud.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:20:17 -0800
To: OpenStack <openstack@lists.launchpad.net>, <foundat...@lists.openstack.org>
Subject: [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

 

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a diplomatic person. When we were 
launching OpenStack, this was a bit of an advantage (if we had waited for 
permission before releasing the Nova source code, we'd still be waiting) - but 
since the first summit, the community has grown so quickly, and become so 
diverse, that I have tried to leave discussions of governance, foundation 
structure, dispute resolution, and most particularly monetary corporate 
contributions, to others with more... tact.

 

But now I feel I have no choice but to speak up; I'm deeply concerned.  

 

The biggest, splashiest openstack stories of the past two years have all had 
the names of huge, multi-national corporations in them - names like IBM, AT&T, 
Dell, HP, and CISCO. And while their participation has been tremendously 
positive for the project (with Quantum and Crowbar standing as examples of 
this), I see things trending in a direction that makes me nervous for the 
smaller players - for the startups who will live or die on the strength of the 
OpenStack project. Like Piston Cloud.

 

The current official proposal for the foundation creates a new class of 
super-members - with a sticker price of $2.5M (due up front) that puts it out 
of reach of all but a small handful of organizations. 

 

This is not a new idea - it was the first structural proposal for the 
foundation that I heard from the organizing team, and I have argued against it 
(at times seemingly successfully) continuously since last fall.

 

I understand why it is appealing; it creates a small and manageable board of 
directors, with a large pool of resources, who shouldn't have too much trouble 
guiding and directing the outcomes of OpenStack. But it's not a structure that 
represents or embodies the principles that OpenStack was founded upon, and I 
think that while it may offer some short-term benefits, it may be damaging to 
the long-term health of the project because it strangles the ecosystem of 
contributing companies we've worked so hard to create. 

 

The "right" structure is a much harder thing to organize:

 - It recognizes and requires project contribution (code, tests, docs, bugs and 
evangelism) along with cash

 - It has a single class of corporate member, a level playing field

 - It has room for non-corporate members in the meaningful governance bodies 
(not tucked away in 'advisory' boards)

 - It aggressively and publicly resolves the conflict-of-interest between the 
'company hat' and the 'project hat'

 

My understanding of the key challenges of this foundation board are the 
following:

 - Keep it small enough to be manageable (21 directors or less)

 - Supply enough funding to carry on with most of the current project support 
activities

 - Ensure representation of the diversity of the OpenStack community

 - Provide a mechanism for "industry luminaries" as well as OpenStack users and 
consumers to provide input and feedback

 

The target budget of the Foundation is around $3M per year. Without getting 
into a discussion about whether that's reasonable or not, I'd like to 
brainstorm how we could reach that goal in a way that better reflects our goals 
for an open and democratic community. How's this for a proposal:

 

 - One class of corporate member

 - Provide reasonable evidence of 2 FTE (full time equivalents) working on 
OpenStack in some capacity

 - Commit to 2 years of sponsorship, on an evergreen basis, but paid annually

 - Individual members, if there are any, cannot be employed by a corporate 
member

 

My rough calculation, having a reasonably good grasp of the interests and level 
of engagement of the various corporations in the OpenStack ecosystem, is that 
we could expect around 15 of the 150 companies involved to meet these 
requirements. $3M divided by 15 = $200,000. 

 

It's a high playing field, but at least it's a level one. It doesn't change the 
structure or composition of the technical committee, and it doesn't limit the 
ability of the foundation to raise money in other ways (sell sponsorships for 
events, charge admission for conferences, even license the use of the trademark 
for training or certification). 

 

If we have a simple pay-to-play model, then we can trust market economics and 
enforce transparency of spending. If we have a simple "meritocracy", then we 
can expect the most skilled and dedicated to rise to the top, provided we're 
extremely careful about how we measure skill and dedication. If we blend the 
two, I'm deeply concerned that we'll see the worst of both systems play out 
over time - the selfishness of market-driven economics dominating our decisions 
with the petulant moralism of the meritocracy. Hoping for any other outcome is, 
in my opinion, foolish optimism. 

 

At the core of OpenStack is the idea that a single project could address the 
needs of ALL of our organizations - large, small, producers, consumers, 
non-profits and tool makers. We need to guard that vision, and protect it from 
our best intentions. No one in the community, whether individual contributor or 
corporate sponsor, can claim to speak for (or even understand the perspective 
of) the majority of us. We're simply too numerous, and too diverse. If you 
believe, as I do, that *your* company should have a stake in OpenStack's 
future, then now is the time to speak up in favor of the level playing field we 
originally set out to create. 

 

With (attempted) diplomacy,

 

Joshua

 

--

Joshua McKenty

Co-Founder, OpenStack

CEO, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.

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m: (650) 283-6846
http://www.pistoncloud.com

 

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"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."

 

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