Re: [libvirt] About the Windows Support ToDo Item
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:32:09PM -0700, Adhyas Avasthi wrote:
I could not really understand this ToDo Item clearly. Does this mean
that
libvert can be installed on Windows and then support Windows Hypervisor ?
Please pardon my lack of understanding, but from what I understand libvert
is supposed to be installed on the hypervisor itself (either in DOM0 or in
the kernel that is managing the hardware underneath, etc.) and then
communicated to from the virtual machine manager utility running on another
machine and trying to control VM behavior by communicating to the
hypervisor. And libvert does not support Windows hypervisor yet. So does
this ToDo mean that there is an expected support for Windows Hypervisor?
No, the Windows support we are targetting is client-mode only. ie, allow
use of libvirt clients to connect to remote Linux hosts running libvirtd.
If someone wants to implement a libvirt driver for Hyper-V patches are
of course welcome, but its not a high priority for any of the developers
I know.
What about VMware hypervisor, then ? Can I install (after some
development)
libvert on vmkernel (VMware's hardware managing OS) and then control it from
a virtual machine manager? I am just trying to understand the ToDo item and
possibilities of using libvert.
Again we'd like to have someone contribute patches to support VMWare
management. Quite a few people have expressed interest in this, but no
one yet wrote much if any code.
Daniel
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