9:09 a.m.
I realize I forgot to post any plan on the topic, oops !
I guess we should shoot for another release around the end of the month,
Friday is a good day for release and freezes, and since I didn't gave any
heads-up, the best is to shoot for a July 3rd release, which mean we
would enter the freeze around the end of next week.
Content wise so far we have mostly bug fixes and update/completion on
existing drivers or APIs so I guess a libvirt-0.6.5 will be fine.
One thing I wonder is about progresses on the ESX driver front, it was
looking fairly close to be commiteable, basically only XML import/export
was needed but I didnt see any news recently, Matthias do you have a
schedule for that missing part ? Any help is needed ?
Daniel
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2:18 p.m.
New subject: [libvirt] Re: Future release schedule
2009/6/16 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>:
One thing I wonder is about progresses on the ESX driver front, it
was
looking fairly close to be commiteable, basically only XML import/export
was needed but I didnt see any news recently, Matthias do you have a
schedule for that missing part ? Any help is needed ?
Well, I was busy with some other parts of the project. Also took care
of some issues with the ESX driver that showed up during tests like
silent session timeouts.
I'm currently checking the VI API to see where to gather the
information for dump-xml, but it seems one needs to read most of it
from the .vmx file of a virtual machine located on the host. Luckily
all files of a virtual machine are readable via HTTP:
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... So the .vmx file is easily
accessible using libcurl.
Luckily (again) there is some unofficial documentation about the VMX
format available: http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
Within the next few days I'll post a proposal on how to map a .vmx
file into the libvirt xml representation.
For create-xml the ESX driver would need to write a .vmx file to the
ESX host, because the .vmx file is essential to create a virtual
machine. Luckily (once again) the ESX host allows putting files to
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... via HTTP.
Regards,
Matthias
3:03 p.m.
New subject: [libvirt] Re: Future release schedule
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2009/6/16 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>:
> One thing I wonder is about progresses on the ESX driver front, it was
> looking fairly close to be commiteable, basically only XML import/export
> was needed but I didnt see any news recently, Matthias do you have a
> schedule for that missing part ? Any help is needed ?
Well, I was busy with some other parts of the project. Also took care
of some issues with the ESX driver that showed up during tests like
silent session timeouts.
Okay :-)
I'm currently checking the VI API to see where to gather the
information for dump-xml, but it seems one needs to read most of it
from the .vmx file of a virtual machine located on the host. Luckily
all files of a virtual machine are readable via HTTP:
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... So the .vmx file is easily
accessible using libcurl.
Somehow I was expecting the informations to be available as return
values from some of the SOAP calls, but maybe this is actually simpler
Luckily (again) there is some unofficial documentation about the VMX
format available: http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
yup, interesting :)
Within the next few days I'll post a proposal on how to map a
.vmx
file into the libvirt xml representation.
Cool, thanks !
I hope the vmx parsing won't be too troublesome, seems there are things
like parameters, I hope this won't turn to be too complex.
For create-xml the ESX driver would need to write a .vmx file to the
ESX host, because the .vmx file is essential to create a virtual
machine. Luckily (once again) the ESX host allows putting files to
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... via HTTP.
Okay, that sounds good ! Thanks for the quick feedback !
Daniel
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5:19 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] Re: Future release schedule
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
I'm currently checking the VI API to see where to gather the
information for dump-xml, but it seems one needs to read most of it
from the .vmx file of a virtual machine located on the host. Luckily
all files of a virtual machine are readable via HTTP:
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... So the .vmx file is easily
accessible using libcurl.
Luckily (again) there is some unofficial documentation about the VMX
format available: http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
Yeah the VMX file format is quite straightforward to read / write.
We already do a similar thing for Xen's configs in /etc/xen - the
raw config file parsing code for that is in src/conf.c, and the code
to convert XML <-> XM Config is in src/xm_internal.c
Within the next few days I'll post a proposal on how to map a .vmx
file into the libvirt xml representation.
For create-xml the ESX driver would need to write a .vmx file to the
ESX host, because the .vmx file is essential to create a virtual
machine. Luckily (once again) the ESX host allows putting files to
http://example-esx-host.com/folder/... via HTTP.
Again, sounds pretty straightforward & a reasonable way to go.
Regards,
Daniel
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