Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-27 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
> On 8/19/13 6:40 AM, "Sebastien Goasguen" wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kind of on that same vein: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Anyone interested in modifying the KVM agent to support "pure" Xen >&g

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-27 Thread Darren Shepherd
t;>>>>>> >>>>>>> I think it might be possible to just use the kvm agent and modify the >>>>>>> libvirt calls to talk to xl , that way there would be no need for >>>>>>> xapi... >>>>>>>

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-27 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
mages in secondary >>>>>>>> storage to >>>>>>>> the hypervisor? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 3. What will be your primary storage model? Typically, primary >>>>>>>>> storage is >>>>>>>

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-27 Thread Darren Shepherd
Which if I am not mistaken would give us Xen on ARM support instantly >>>>> in >>>>> CloudStack >>>>> >>>>> Any takers ? or anyone telling me I got this completely wrong ? >>>>> >>>>> -Sebastien >>>>&g

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-27 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
s Xen on ARM support instantly >>>> in >>>> CloudStack >>>> >>>> Any takers ? or anyone telling me I got this completely wrong ? >>>> >>>> -Sebastien >>>> >>>> On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:42 AM,

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-19 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
;> wrote: >>> >>>> Ian, with AWS it¹s the other way around. The package allows us to spin >>>> up VMs in CS using AWS EC2 API's. >>>> >>>> -Likitha >>>> >>>>> -Original Message- >>>>> From:

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-19 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
S it¹s the other way around. The package allows us to spin >>> up VMs in CS using AWS EC2 API's. >>> >>> -Likitha >>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie] >>>> Sent: Friday, August 1

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-19 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
nal Message----- >>> From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie] >>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:07 PM >>> To: CloudStack Dev >>> Subject: Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor >>> >>> Hi Donal and Chiradeep, >>> >>>

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-19 Thread Nguyen Anh Tu
2013/8/19 Sebastien Goasguen > Kind of on that same vein: > > Anyone interested in modifying the KVM agent to support "pure" Xen without > xapi. > > I think it might be possible to just use the kvm agent and modify the > libvirt calls to talk to xl , that way there would be no need for xapi... >

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-19 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
#x27;s. > > -Likitha > >> -Original Message- >> From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie] >> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:07 PM >> To: CloudStack Dev >> Subject: Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor >> >> Hi Donal an

RE: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-15 Thread Likitha Shetty
h command can be found out from >existing hypervisor implementations. Alternatively, you can look at test logs, >which contain the data from each command. Eventually you'll want to try your >plugin with CloudStack itself. >> >> Chiradeep's comments relate to #6 above. >

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-15 Thread Ian Duffy
data from each command. Eventually you'll want to > try your plugin with CloudStack itself. > > Chiradeep's comments relate to #6 above. > > >> -----Original Message- >> From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] >> Sent: 15 August 2013 02

RE: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-15 Thread Donal Lafferty
to #6 above. > -Original Message- > From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] > Sent: 15 August 2013 02:51 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor > > Yes, it is a hypervisor plugin. While the exten

Re: Whats involved in adding an extra hypervisor

2013-08-14 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Yes, it is a hypervisor plugin. While the extension method may be simple, the impedance mismatch between the CloudStack virtual model and the hypervisor API is what causes the most pain. E.g., CloudStack will hand a VirtualMachineTO object (consisting of cpu/mem/nic) and then you have to use the hy