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

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.