Re: CloudStack Collab in Brazil

2018-12-19 Thread Tim Mackey
Gabriel, I'm happy to help review proposals if required. -tim On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:35 PM Gabriel Beims Bräscher < gabrasc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > I am available to help, count on me! > I have one question. Can anyone (one that is not a PMC/Committer) help to > review present

Re: [PROPOSE] EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

2018-01-16 Thread Tim Mackey
I think there are three pieces in play. First there are guest OSes, second the management server and third the hypervisors themselves. For the hypervisors and management server I can see a more stringent set of requirements. Going by the XenServer experience, legacy guests should continue to work,

Re: [DISCUSS] running sVM and VR as HVM on XenServer

2018-01-16 Thread Tim Mackey
t; *Pierre-Luc DION* > Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect > t 855.652.5683 > > *CloudOps* Votre partenaire infonuagique* | *Cloud Solutions Experts > 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 > w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ > > On Fri, Jan 12,

Re: [DISCUSS] running sVM and VR as HVM on XenServer

2018-01-12 Thread Tim Mackey
t; > > > > > > > > > > > Can someone confirm if VRs receive management IPs in KVM deployments? > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Syed Ahmed > wrote: > > > > > > > The reason why we used link local in the first

Re: [DISCUSS] running sVM and VR as HVM on XenServer

2018-01-12 Thread Tim Mackey
dom0 already has a DHCP server listening for requests on internal management networks. I'd be wary trying to manage it from an external service like cloudstack lest it get reset upon XenServer patch. This alone makes me favor option #2. I also think option #2 simplifies network design for users. A

Re: [XenServer] meltdown-spectre

2018-01-08 Thread Tim Mackey
PLD, One thing to add to your testing is template management. When I was doing all the Packer stuff with XS 6.5 and 7, ACS needed to know if the template was PV or HVM to provision properly. No idea if the ACS template logic has changed since then, but something to be aware of. >From a performanc

Re: [DISCUSS] Move to Debian9 systemvmtemplate

2017-07-27 Thread Tim Mackey
Syed, I did a bunch of work on XenServer with Packer [1] before leaving Citrix. My stuff works rather well and was tested with XS 6.2, 6.5 and 7. It shouldn't be hard to validate with newest XS and updated Packer - I just lack the infra to do the testing. [1] https://github.com/xenserverarmy/pack

Re: Opportunity to contribute in Apache CloudStack

2016-07-15 Thread Tim Mackey
llo Sir, >> >> Can you please tell us more about the proposal to bring pure Xen in as >> fully supported hypervisor and your project in security space? >> >> Regards, >> TheAtom >> >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: >> >&

Re: Opportunity to contribute in Apache CloudStack

2016-07-06 Thread Tim Mackey
Jainesh, and by extension all members of TheAtom, welcome to the CloudStack project. You'll want to join the development list (dev@cloudstack.apache.org), and look at the contributing section here: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack and here: https://cloudstack.apache.org/developers.html. A prop

Re: XenServer 7

2016-05-25 Thread Tim Mackey
Correct, all modern XenServer distros until 7 were centos 5.x. I doubt any xapi changes would break cloudstack, but the plugins should be retested, and btw it's also systemd time On May 25, 2016 2:39 PM, "Remi Bergsma" wrote: As far as I know previous versions were based on Centos 5 even ;-) Reg

Re: Refactoring CitrixResourceBase

2016-05-19 Thread Tim Mackey
+1 When I went through this last time, not only was it hard to understand the flows, but the XenServer version management was a pain. Would suggest creating a base class which always works (i.e. is independent of XenServer version) for core functions. Then add in that which exists for a specific v

Re: Mentor

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Mackey
Prakash, As you go through this, if you have questions related to how XenServer works, do feel free to ask me. Another good avenue is the xs-devel list on xenserver.org. On Oct 27, 2015 6:27 PM, "Erik Weber" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:34 PM, David Willard > wrote: > > > Hi B. Prakash,

Re: Getting Started With Documentation

2015-10-22 Thread Tim Mackey
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Eric wrote: > Thanks, Erik! > Is there a discussion forum where contributors can discuss documentation? > I believe that, like all things in technology, there should be a set of > conventions that guide authors in the use of common terms. e.g., Xen? Or > Xen Proje

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Tim Mackey
n is to add a > > switch between both HA methods so one can choose which one suits best, > and > > for older XenServer versions we will restore the HA feature that way. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > Remi > > > > Op di 5 mei 2015 om 08:13

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-04 Thread Tim Mackey
current 4.4+ behaviour (XenHA selects new pool master). When it is not, we > do the CloudStack 4.3 behaviour where CloudStack is fully in control. > > I also talked to Tim Mackey and he wants to help implement this, but he > doesn't have much time. The idea is to have so

Re: SG not working with 6.5 and PR review

2015-04-21 Thread Tim Mackey
s are removed, for a brief period (until new > ipset entry replace the old one) old entries still persist. But since > iptables rules are removed and no one is referencing them it is harmless. > 2. In case of users upgrading, the old ipset data-structure is “iptreemap” > or “iphash”, but

Re: SG not working with 6.5 and PR review

2015-04-21 Thread Tim Mackey
Rohit, I just added a comment to update line 457 to tick-quote the vmchain as you've done elsewhere. My main concern would be flushing the ipset while the iptable entry still exists. I am curious what in sm/util.py concerned you. That's all storage management code and should have nothing to do

Re: Cloudstack and Xen Cloud Platform(XCP)

2015-04-10 Thread Tim Mackey
The most recent version of XCP is 1.6, and it approximately corresponds to XenServer 6.1. XCP was effectively discontinued when XenServer 6.2 was released in June 2013 ( http://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-cloud-platform-archives.html). Importantly, there are no longer any patches being create

Re: Any VxLan Support on Xenserver

2015-04-01 Thread Tim Mackey
The ovs contained within XenServer 6.5 is capable of supporting VxLAN, but as Adrian stated the control plane is missing. Prior XenServer versions don't have an ovs capable of VxLAN. I *think* Contrail also supports VxLAN, but I don't know what its status is wrt XenServer 6.5 -tim On Wed, Apr 1

Re: [DISCUSS] Important: XenServer labels reverted for backward compatibility

2015-02-02 Thread Tim Mackey
or 3rd party consumers such as CLI scripts, custom UI and > possibly others. > > On Monday 02 February 2015 04:53 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > >> Iirc, that was the only one. >> >> I don't agree with the reversion, but let me look at supporting both >> once I get to

RE: [DISCUSS] Important: XenServer labels reverted for backward compatibility

2015-02-02 Thread Tim Mackey
. > > > > Is there a list of all the API changes that have been made? > > > > Regards > > > > Geoff Higginbottom > > > > D: +44 20 3603 0542 <+442036030542> | S: +44 20 3603 0540 <+442036030540> > | M: +447968161581 > > > &g

Re: [DISCUSS] Important: XenServer labels reverted for backward compatibility

2015-02-02 Thread Tim Mackey
Rohit, how does the issue manifest itself? I ask because I thought I'd taken care of every scenario during upgrade. On Feb 2, 2015 10:52 AM, "Rohit Yadav" wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Geoff found a issue today that breaks backward compatibility for > XenServer users. > > Until 4.4, XenServer traffic la

Re: Packer for XenServer VHDs

2015-01-27 Thread Tim Mackey
l.openvm.eu using virt-install+kickstarts ( > http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/centos/ks/ ). > > HTH > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > - Original Message - > > From: "Tim Mackey"

Packer for XenServer VHDs

2015-01-26 Thread Tim Mackey
Everyone, I've been extending a XenServer builder some of the XenServer engineering team have been working on to produce a VHD which would be suitable for upload as a template. CentOS 7 is my guest OS type and have the XenServer tools going in and guest password script running as a systemd servi

Re: XenServer 6.5 RC and ACS

2014-12-29 Thread Tim Mackey
It's in master since September, and I think 4.5, but haven't explicitly tried that. On Dec 29, 2014 12:47 PM, "Pierre-Luc Dion" wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > I haven't tested it but it might work with ACS 4.4. do you have a lab to > validate this ? their is reference to XS6.5 into the code which is why

[DISCUSS] Issues with Ubuntu instance creation

2014-12-08 Thread Tim Mackey
I've been working through a series of issues getting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS templates to provision correctly, and I *think* most are really doc issues, but before I run off and update docs I wanted to confirm that I'm doing the right thing. Here's my list of issues, and what I did to get past my "issue"

Re: [DISCUSS] Should we install XenServer tools in systemvmtemplates

2014-11-21 Thread Tim Mackey
ill that cause any (potential) issue since you > mentioned it has few bugs in it? > > Regards. > > > On 20-Nov-2014, at 10:23 pm, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > > It's the other way around. Newer XenServer works with older tools, not > the > > other way. > > On N

Re: [DISCUSS] Should we install XenServer tools in systemvmtemplates

2014-11-20 Thread Tim Mackey
lying > Xen/XenServer hypervisor version is not 6.2? > > > On 20-Nov-2014, at 9:12 pm, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > > From the XenServer perspective, we have a small problem. The XenServer > > tools are backward compatible, but not guaranteed forward compatible. > What &g

Re: [DISCUSS] Should we install XenServer tools in systemvmtemplates

2014-11-20 Thread Tim Mackey
>From the XenServer perspective, we have a small problem. The XenServer tools are backward compatible, but not guaranteed forward compatible. What that means is we'd need to include the XenServer 5.6 tools, and those have a commercial license. The XenServer 5.6 tools also have a few bugs which w

Re: xenserver 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Tim Mackey
Correct on both counts On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Daan Hoogland wrote: > thanks Tim, from this I take that hypervisor versions are hardcoded still, > and xenserver 6.5 is supported since 4.5. correct? > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > Daan,

Re: xenserver 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Tim Mackey
> Can you clarify that? > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Daan Hoogland > wrote: > > > Tim, these changes are needed? so 4.4.1 will not work with db changes... > Do > > you have a commit id? > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tim Mackey w

Re: xenserver 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Tim Mackey
I know that master had a bunch of cleanup work to make things work better (commits were a month ago), but baring any significant issues, being able to support a newer XenServer should be as simple as a database update. So net of this master *today* should work fine with 6.5 (and the various pre-re

Re: CLOUDSTACK-7184

2014-07-25 Thread Tim Mackey
> Hi Tim, > > No, we do not use XenServer HA. > > Remi > > > > On 7/25/14, 5:46 PM, "Tim Mackey" wrote: > > >Remi, > > > >Did you have the native XenServer HA enabled at the same time? > > > >-tim > >On Jul 25, 2014 8:3

Re: CLOUDSTACK-7184

2014-07-25 Thread Tim Mackey
Remi, Did you have the native XenServer HA enabled at the same time? -tim On Jul 25, 2014 8:31 AM, "Remi Bergsma" wrote: > Hi guys, > > We had some serious corruption today, described in CLOUDSTACK-7184 > (XenServer specific). > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-7184 > > Some dis

Re: xapi jar as separate release

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Mackey
Curious if XAPI being LGPL2 matters for this discussion. http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html -tim On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Doh! I mixed up master (4.5) with 4.4 in my e-mail. My mistake. I > understand your questi

Re: Review Request 22799: Golden (Base) Primary Storage feature

2014-06-24 Thread Tim Mackey
:50 PM, Hieu LE wrote: > >> Hi Tim and Mike, >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Tim Mackey wrote: >> >>>This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: >>> https://reviews.apache.org/r/22799/ >>> >>> On June

Re: Review Request 22799: Golden (Base) Primary Storage feature

2014-06-23 Thread Tim Mackey
- > > (Updated June 20, 2014, 3:46 a.m.) > > > Review request for cloudstack, Mike Tutkowski and Tim Mackey. > > > Repository: cloudstack-git > > > Description > --- > > As discussed in mailing list, this patch is applied f

Re: Managing individual ESXi instances

2014-06-18 Thread Tim Mackey
Mike, I wouldn't expect things with the VMware Hypervisor (what they refer to standalone ESXi) to work out of the box. Since you can't cluster things, I'd expect only raw iSCSI to work, but it's been years since I've worked with raw ESXi. -tim On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mike Tutkowski <

Re: Xen Project support and state of APIs

2014-06-17 Thread Tim Mackey
I could easily have broken something. If I've broken something, I probably won't be able to test until next week due to travels. The question of xapi inclusion in distros is one I'd need to check on. > [1] http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html > [2] http:/

Re: Xen Project support and state of APIs

2014-06-17 Thread Tim Mackey
Rohit, We've only supported xapi so far, so I'm curious if you had Xen Project 4.4 working before with xapi and if that is now broken. Nothing I did should have impacted that, but it wasn't in my test suite so anything is possible On Jun 17, 2014 11:21 AM, "Rohit Yadav" wrote: > Hi, > > Xen Proj

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pierre-Luc Dion as a committer

2014-06-10 Thread Tim Mackey
Félicitations mon ami! On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ian Duffy wrote: > Congrats Pierre-Luc! > > > On 10 June 2014 17:07, Nguyen Anh Tu wrote: > > > Congratulation, Pierre-Luc! > > > > --Tuna > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wr

Re: [DISCUSS] Increasing VM IOPS by separating golden image in high IOPS partition in Xen Server ?

2014-06-09 Thread Tim Mackey
Hieu, I made a couple of minor edits to your design to ensure everything is "XenServer" based. If you haven't done so already, please also fetch the most recent master and base off of that. I refactored the old Xen plugin into a XenServer specific one since Xen Project isn't currently supported,

Re: [DISCUSS] extending the libvirt/KVM plugin to also support libvirt/Xen

2014-06-09 Thread Tim Mackey
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Dave Scott wrote: > > > - It would be good to see a UI mock up for how users would configure > > the Xen Project hypervisor option. I think that would go a long way > > to helping with the mixed hypervisor cluster concept and how it could > > be blocked. > > My co

Re: [DISCUSS] extending the libvirt/KVM plugin to also support libvirt/Xen

2014-06-09 Thread Tim Mackey
Dave, Thanks for putting this up on the wiki. A few things jumped out at me... - Please change "Xen" to "XenProject" or "Xen Project" as appropriate. There's already a ton of confusion out there, and I'd like to see us get our terms correct from the outset where ever possible. - It would be good

Re: Support pure Xen as a hypervisor follow-up

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Mackey
If you can give me the commit ID for your HEAD, I'll check and see what's up. It could be another conflict needing resolution. -tim On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:16 PM, sebgoa wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> I've

Re: Support pure Xen as a hypervisor follow-up

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Mackey
Dave, I've submitted a merge review request (https://reviews.apache.org/r/22270/) yesterday. If you want to avoid having to potentially deal with a bunch of conflicts, you might want to see if your patches apply cleanly there and let me know. Happy to help with any conflict resolution. btw, I d

Re: [DISCUSS] Increasing VM IOPS by separating golden image in high IOPS partition in Xen Server ?

2014-06-05 Thread Tim Mackey
Hieu, If I understand the objective correctly, you are trying to reduce the IO associated with a desktop "start of day" boot storm. In your proposal, you're effectively wanting to move the CloudStack secondary storage concept to include a locally attached storage device which is SSD based. While

Merge Review Request 22270: Xen 2 XenServer refactoring

2014-06-05 Thread Tim Mackey
I've just submitted a review request which is essentially a merge of the xen2server feature branch back into master. Since this is a refactoring of the Xen plugin to make it more explicitly a XenServer plugin per the feature: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Convert+Xen+usage

Re: Hypervisor version and XenServer

2014-04-24 Thread Tim Mackey
can help. > > > --- > Thanks, > Yitao > jiangyt.github.io > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Chiradeep Vittal < > chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > Where is this HYPERVISOR_VERSION? In the code? Docs? > > > > From: Tim

Hypervisor version and XenServer

2014-04-23 Thread Tim Mackey
I'm running through some bugs with my Xen->XenServer work and just ran across the HYPERVISOR_VERSION being the Xen version and not the XenServer version. Does anyone know why that is? Given that feature/function in XenServer is tied to the XenServer version, I see using the Xen version as a bug w

Re: [ACS4.5] move from xen 2 xenserver

2014-04-16 Thread Tim Mackey
his change, for example > because of changes in some parsing code. > > -- > Stephen Turner > > > -Original Message- > From: Tim Mackey [mailto:tmac...@gmail.com] > Sent: 16 April 2014 01:31 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [ACS4.5] move from

Re: [ACS4.5] move from xen 2 xenserver

2014-04-15 Thread Tim Mackey
en Turner > > > > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 15 April 2014 08:36 > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: [ACS4.5] move from xen 2 xenserver > > > > Folks, > > > &g

Re: Cloudstack support for Xen (on Ubuntu)

2014-04-13 Thread Tim Mackey
Tracy, XCP itself was made EOL last year in favor of XenServer. You can of course still continue to use XCP 1.6, but there will be no future releases and development is now XenServer based. If the dom0 distro matters, you should take a look at the xenserver-core work going on. -tim On Fri, Apr

[PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

2014-03-18 Thread Tim Mackey
Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer to any XenAPI based implementation. With the recent release of Xen Project 4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our Xen

4.3 features with hypervisor differences

2014-02-05 Thread Tim Mackey
Hi everyone, I'm updating my deck on hypervisor differences for 4.3, and I'd like confirmation of what I understand made the cut. Feedback welcome. - Hyper-V 2012 R2 added (Donal, I'll be hitting you up to confirm all the HV stuff) - vSphere 5.5 added and supporting identical features to vSphere

Re: [PROPOSAL] Introduce API returning you an answer from CloudStack storage/host allocators whethere there is enough resources for vm deployment

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Mackey
How deep into dependencies would this go? For example, if a new router VM was required would that also be checked? A chunk of the race conditions and state change issues should be resolvable with ticket reservation system logic, but I'd be concerned the required locks could create problems during

Re: XenServer SR Question

2014-01-31 Thread Tim Mackey
e: > Great - thanks! > > I was just trying to make sense of the numbers. :) > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > I'll need to confirm with engineering, but that makes sense. I'll also > see > > if there is a different format spec

Re: XenServer SR Question

2014-01-30 Thread Tim Mackey
; devserial: scsi-36f47acc133793877007e > blobs ( RO): > local-cache-enabled ( RO): false > tags (SRW): > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > I'm assuming that's the value fr

Re: XenServer SR Question

2014-01-30 Thread Tim Mackey
I'm assuming that's the value from XenCenter. What does the cli say? I could see this being just a formatting question. On Jan 30, 2014 5:59 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how a XenServer SR could (correctly) say more space is > being used than is allocated? > > This is wh

Re: Question about XenServer Snapshots

2013-12-19 Thread Tim Mackey
Mike, you might want to post this to xs-devel on XenServer.org. Some of the storage engineers there would be in s better position to diagnose. On Dec 19, 2013 5:10 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" wrote: > Hi, > > I have been experimenting with VM snapshots on XenServer and have noticed a > problem that I h

Re: XenServer SR Question

2013-12-18 Thread Tim Mackey
#x27;s IP address and 3260 is > the port) that I can create SRs using different CHAP credentials. > > Can anyone think of a "got-cha" here? > > Thanks! > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > Mike, > > > > I'm re

Re: XenServer SR Question

2013-12-18 Thread Tim Mackey
argets. > > Do you know of a way to delete those cached CHAP credentials via XAPI so > when new ones are used for discovery they can work? > > Thanks! > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > > > Unfortunately what you're experiencing is how

Re: XenServer SR Question

2013-12-18 Thread Tim Mackey
Unfortunately what you're experiencing is how it works. While XenServer does support different CHAP credentials by SR, it only supports a single CHAP credential for discovery. It can be made to work, but you'd need to either modify how the storage manager works to pull it off, or rewrite some of

Review: Hypervisor selection PDF

2013-11-18 Thread Tim Mackey
Good evening everyone. I'm presenting at Collab this week on hypervisor selection in CloudStack. While I've been running CloudStack since the pre-Apache days, my experience is obviously limited to what I've personally implemented. Since I want to keep this session factual and avoid any bias, I'm