Re: [libvirt-users] About IBM PowerVM hypervisor support

On 07/04/2012 03:26 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote: >2012/7/4 Dennis Chen<dennis.chen(a)tnsoft.com.cn>: >>Hi, >> >>I noticed that libvirt support the following hypervisors currently: >> >>The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor >>The Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts. >>The LXC Linux container system >>The OpenVZ Linux container system >>The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel >>The VirtualBox hypervisor >>The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors >>The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors >>The Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor >> >>"the goal of libvirt: to provide a common and stable layer sufficient to >>securely manage domains on a node, possibly remote." >> >>My question is, does redhat's libvirt team have the plan to support IBM >>PowerVM hypervisor? If the answer is NO, what's the reason to make the >>support for IBM PowerVM hypervisor doesn't make sense... >Well, libvirt aleady has support for the 'IBM Power Hypervisor' for a >while now, called 'phyp' internally in the codebase, see > >http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tree;f=src/phyp > >It's just lacking documentation and for some unknown reason is not >mentioned on the homepage. We should fix this. > Adding Eduardo who is the author of the phyp driver... Eduardo, is the libvirtd daemon necessary for libvirt-based to manage the PowerVM node? I guess so, if it's the case, then what's the environment in the PowerVM-based node to run the libvirtd daemon, is it vios?