On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:43:32PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2010/1/19 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:27:55PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >>
http://www.libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_limitations says:
> >>
> >> Limitations
> >> * Remote storage: To be fully useful, particularly for creating
> >> new domains, it should be possible to enumerate and provision storage
> >> on the remote machine. This is currently in the design phase.
> >> * Migration: We expect libvirt will support migration, and
> >> obviously remote support is what makes migration worthwhile. This is
> >> also in the design phase. Issues to discuss include which path the
> >> migration data should follow (eg. client to client direct, or client
> >> to server to client) and security.
> >>
> >> IMHO this is outdated information, because libvirt supports both
> >> features now. So both should be removed from the website as they could
> >> misinform newbies.
> >
> > Agreed, that needs to be removed.
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
> Here's a patch for it.
>
> Matthias
> From 4205ae5a790c7e4022dcf6250b500a10f4d6b5a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte(a)googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:39:20 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] docs: Remove outdated information about remote limitations
>
> ---
> docs/remote.html.in | 10 ----------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/remote.html.in b/docs/remote.html.in
> index 2716ebe..b8b8f2b 100644
> --- a/docs/remote.html.in
> +++ b/docs/remote.html.in
> @@ -811,16 +811,6 @@ should just 'do the right thing(tm)'.
> <a name="Remote_limitations"
id="Remote_limitations">Limitations</a>
> </h3>
> <ul>
> - <li> Remote storage: To be fully useful, particularly for
> -creating new domains, it should be possible to enumerate
> -and provision storage on the remote machine. This is currently
> -in the design phase. </li>
> - <li> Migration: We expect libvirt will support migration,
> -and obviously remote support is what makes migration worthwhile.
> -This is also in the design phase. Issues <a
href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list"
title="libvir-list mailing list">to discuss</a> include
> -which path the migration data should follow (eg. client to
> -client direct, or client to server to client) and security.
> -</li>
> <li> Fine-grained authentication: libvirt in general,
> but in particular the remote case should support more
> fine-grained authentication for operations, rather than
ACK, thanks for spotting this !
Daniel
Well, I didn't spot it, jcox on IRC did by asking about the migration
support of libvirt and referencing this section of the website.
Pushed.
Matthias