Re: [Libvir] Concepts in storage management
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:34:26PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-September/msg00119.html
> Since that thread is split across two months, can I bring to everyone's
> attention the post I made yesterday:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-October/msg00057.html
>
> In particular the concept at the end that we shouldn't even try to
> support every possible remote storage, but instead allow the
> administrator to write "scriptlets" (small shell scripts with a
> well-defined input & output) to perform a set of operations:
This is really just an implementation detail. We still need to define the
storage concepts we want to expose in the public API, before figuring out
on the backend implementation. Most of the implementation wiill pretty much
have to follow the scheme of just invoking command line tools like lvcreate
and lvs, since formal APIs are scarse.
Well, a basic set of operations would be whatever we need to implement
virt-install/virt-manager remotely now, plus other suggestions as they
come along.
From a fairly brief scan of the virt-install & virt-manager code that
would be:
- Create an empty a file with given name & size & sparseness.
- Detect if a named device or file exists (basically a remote stat).
- Copy image to remote temporary file (for kernel/CD-ROM).
- Check free space (remote statvfs).
It might be nice to list LVs, but it doesn't seem to be necessary to
implement remote virt-* at the moment (AFAICS).
Rich.
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