State of libvirt-cim project

Hello, I am interested in the current status of this project. Is Xen the only hypervisor supported at this point? What DMTF virtualization profiles are currently complete?, which ones are not? What level of testing / verification exists? Are both OpenPegasus and SFCB fully supported? What areas of contribution are needed? Thanks and sorry for all the questions. Peter Peter Mellquist Hewlett-Packard Company Open Source and Linux Organization peter.mellquist@hp.com

PM> Hello, Hi Peter! PM> Is Xen the only hypervisor supported at this point? No, KVM is supported as well, although it is definitely not as "heavily traveled" as Xen so far. We're in the process of adding Linux Containers support as well (see my patch set from earlier today), as support materializes in libvirt. PM> What DMTF virtualization profiles are currently complete?, which PM> ones are not? That's a hard question to answer, IMHO. I think we're pretty well covered on the SVP and VSP profiles, and we use the relevant bits of the RAP, GDRV profile, VS migration, etc. For more details on the profiles we claim support for, see profiles.h in the source tree: http://libvirt.org/hg/libvirt-cim/file/c8c0e264c75c/src/profiles.h PM> What level of testing / verification exists? We have some internal test-suite right now that we plan to publish very soon. PM> Are both OpenPegasus and SFCB fully supported? Yes. We do most of our testing on Pegasus, but SFCB gets a fair bit of use as well. If you find something that works in one and not the other, we'll fix it. PM> What areas of contribution are needed? Testing and exercising KVM would be a good thing, if you're interested in using it. Any additional platform support that you want (OpenVZ, for example) would be good to add. Thanks! -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: danms@us.ibm.com

Mellquist, Peter wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in the current status of this project.
Is Xen the only hypervisor supported at this point? What DMTF virtualization profiles are currently complete?, which ones are not? What level of testing / verification exists? Are both OpenPegasus and SFCB fully supported? What areas of contribution are needed?
Thanks and sorry for all the questions.
Peter
Peter Mellquist Hewlett-Packard Company Open Source and Linux Organization peter.mellquist@hp.com
All I've got to add to what Dan said is that I develop and test exclusively against sfcb (when there are Pegasus issues with my code I make Kaitlin and Dan test :-P) so sfcb sees about as much exercise with our providers as Pegasus does, and if you find an issue that seems sfcb exclusive, we've got an environment ready to replicate the behavior in. Oh, and when one of your questions is "What areas of contribution are needed?" you can feel free to ask as many other ones as you want. :-) -- -Jay
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Dan Smith
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Jay Gagnon
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Mellquist, Peter