> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:48 AM Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just to clarify the state of things a little: It is not only technically
> there. KubeVirt supports pci passthrough, GPU passthrough and
> SRIOV (including live-migration for SRIOV). I can't say if the OpenShift UI
> can compete with oVirt at this stage.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Roman

Well, I guess it's there, mostly because they didn't have to do anything new, 
it's part of KVM/libvirt and more inherited than added.

The main reason I "don't see it coming" is that may create more problems than 
it solves.

To my understanding K8 is all about truly elastic workloads, including 
"mobility" to avoid constraints (including memory overcommit). Mobility in 
quotes, because I don't even know if it migrates containers or just shuts 
instances down in one place and launches them in another: migration itself has 
a significant cost after all.

But if it were to migrate them (e.g. via CRIU for containers and "vMotion" for 
VMs) it would then to also have to understand (via KubeVirt), which devices are 
tied, because they use a device that has too big a state (e.g. a multi-gig CUDA 
workloads), a hard physical dependence (e.g. USB with connected devices) or 
something that could move with the VM (e.g. SR-IOV FC/NIC/INF with a fabric 
that can be re-configured to match or is also virtualized).

A proper negotiation between the not-so-dynamic physically available assets of 
the DC and the much more dynamic resources required by the application are the 
full scope of a virt-stack/k8 hybrid, encompassing a DC/Cloud-OS 
(infrastructure) and K8 (platform) aspects.

While I'd love to have that, I can see how that won't be maintained by anyone 
as a full free-to-use open-souce turn-key solution.
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html
oVirt Code of Conduct: 
https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/
List Archives: 
https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OPAKEXBS4LZSG2HIU3AWGJJCLT22FFGF/

Reply via email to