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

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:22:12PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote: > 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. Given that they have now confirmed it can be removed, and is already broken with current Open Nebula releases, any objections to me pushing the patch for 0.9.0 ?