[one-users] SmartOS drivers

[Len Weincier]

Hi Ruben

Thanks for the pointers its a great help.

Is it possible in one to have that type='xml' be type='json' to generate the machine description as Json rather, or would you recommend that the driver do the translation ?

Cheers
Len

On 05 Nov 2012, at 9:59 PM, "Ruben S. Montero" <rsmontero at opennebula.org> wrote:

> Hi Len
> 
> You may take a look to the VMM driver development guide:
> 
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.8:devel-vmm
> 
> Probably the best way to get started is to use the kvm or xen driver as an starting point. You may:
> 
> 
> 1 Copy the /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/kvm folder to /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/smartos and start working from there.
> 
> 2 Add the driver to the oned.conf file
> 
> VM_MAD = [
>     name       = "vmm_smartos",
>     executable = "one_vmm_exec",
>     arguments  = "-t 15 -r 0 smartos",
>     default    = "vmm_exec/vmm_exec_kvm.conf",
>     type       = "xml" ]
> 
> 3 Any time you modify the driver you need to copy it to the hosts, so do not forget to execute onehost sync
> 
> A couple of additional notes:
> 
> 1 Actions are executed remotely on the target host, if you want to execute them in the front-end use the -l option in configuration. There are examples in oned.conf
> 
> 2 The xml type will generate a XML file with the domain description as $1 for the deploy script. This is the real work for the driver, translate the generic template in something specific to SmartOS
> 
> 3 Initially you'll need to deploy the vms by hand, use onevm deploy. You need also to get specific information from SmartOS with an Information Driver, that can come as a second step.
> 
> 
> Please keep us updated with your progress and don't hesitate to ask for help.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ruben
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Len Weincier <len at cloudafrica.net> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I would like to try my hand at implementing drivers for SmartOS under opennebula. Does anyone have any pointers to where I could start looking on how to go about this ?
> 
> Is anyone else looking this so that I dont duplicate efforts ?
> 
> Thanks
> Len
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