Re: [libvirt] [PATCH RFC] Remove the Open Nebula driver

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:08:00PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > On 03/22/2011 12:23 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >The Open Nebula driver has been unmaintained since it was first > >introduced. The only commits have been for tree-wide cleanups. > >It also has a major design flaw, in that it only knows about guests > >that it has created itself, which makes it of very limited use. > > > >Discussions wrt evolution of the VMWare ESX driver, concluded that > >it should limit itself to single-node ESX operation and not try to > >manage the multi-node architecture of VirtualCenter. Open Nebula > >is a cluster like Virtual Center, not a single node system, so > >reasoning applies. > > > >The DeltaCloud project includes an Open Nebula driver and is a much > >better fit architecturally, since it is explicitly targetting the > >distributed multihost cluster scenario. > > > >Thus this patch deletes the libvirt Open Nebula driver with the > >recommendation that people use DeltaCloud for managing it instead. > > I knew nothing about Open Nebula, so I went searching. I noticed the > following on its about page: > > *"User Interfaces*: Unix-like command line and libvirt interface for > the management of the cloud infrastructure" > > (http://opennebula.org/documentation:features) > > Since they're claiming the libvirt driver as a feature, they will > probably have something to say about this removal. At the very least > they'll want to point to the DeltaCloud driver instead of libvirt. Agreed, we really need to give them a heads-up, which Eric is doing but that sounds premature for 0.9.0, unless they comment accordingly within a few days.