Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo-vmware] Propose adding Radoslav to core team

2014-09-15 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
+1. Rado has been very instrumental in helping with reviews and making significant fixes to oslo.vmware. He also contributed greatly to the effort to integrate the library with other projects. Vui From: Arnaud Legendre Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 10:18 AM

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nominating Jay Pipes for nova-core

2014-08-04 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
+1! From: Michael Still Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 2:02 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nominating Jay Pipes for nova-core Greetings, I would like to nominate Jay Pipes for the nova-core team. Jay has been i

[openstack-dev] [all] oslo.vmware 0.4.0 released

2014-07-02 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
This is an announcement that oslo.vmware 0.4.0 has been released for the Juno cycle. It is available on PyPI and shoudl show up in our mirror shortly. The changes since the previous release include: $ git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --no-merges 0.3..0.4.0 df06729 Sync excutils fro

[openstack-dev] [nova][vmware] spawn() refactor: proposal to address branch complexity

2014-03-30 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
Work has begun to convert a bunch of nested functions in VMwareVMOps::spawn() to improve its {read,test,review}-ability. (See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-spawn-refactor) Much of it has already been hashed out in irc, so not much to add here. But this work in very unlik

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][vmware] Locking: A can of worms

2014-03-07 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
Thanks Matt, good points raised here. I think at minimum we should address the single-node case by @synchronized-ing all access to the image cache data on the datastore, in a way that is fairly easy to reason about. Spawn failures are not desirable but acceptable in edge cases if a subsequent ret

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Blueprint: standard specification of guest CPU topology

2013-12-02 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
Hi Daniel, I too found the original bp a little hard to follow, so thanks for writing up the wiki! I see that the wiki is now linked to the BP, which is great as well. The ability to express CPU topology constraints for the guests has real-world use, and several drivers, including VMware, can de

Re: [openstack-dev] How to create vmdk for openstack usage

2013-09-26 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
Hi Jason, Comments inlined. If it helps, I can also work with you off-list via email to help resolve the issues you have. Thanks, Vui - Original Message - | From: "Jason Zhang" | To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" | Cc: "Vui Chiap Lam" | Sent

Re: [openstack-dev] How to create vmdk for openstack usage

2013-09-16 Thread Vui Chiap Lam
Hi Jason, What happens if you forgo the converting to lsilogic, and instead upload the disk to glance as an ide disk (using --property vmware_adaptertype=ide)? Also, just reiterating the docs and Dan's comments, After obtaining a sparse ide vmdk from "qemu-img convert", due to a bug in the