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

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.