Excellent initiative.<br>I think the ecosystem would be a great place for this to go.<br>I am planning to take a closer look at this driver and will provide feedback.<br><br>Shi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/16 Javier Fontan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfontan@gmail.com">jfontan@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot for you effort. I am sure your development will be useful<br>
for lots of users. I think you should apply for an ecosystem account<br>
so these drivers are shown in the ecosystem catalog. You have more<br>
information about this here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://opennebula.org/community:ecosystem" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org/community:ecosystem</a><br>
<br>
Thanks again, bye<br>
<br>
2010/9/16 Székelyi Szabolcs <<a href="mailto:szekelyi@niif.hu">szekelyi@niif.hu</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Friday 03 September 2010 15.13.55 Székelyi Szabolcs wrote:<br>
>> On Friday 03 September 2010 14.54.06 Ignacio M. Llorente wrote:<br>
>> > You could consider to contribute the new driver to our ecosystem<br>
>> > and/or write a post in our blog describing your customization.<br>
>><br>
>> Our development is sponsored by the state, thus everything we develop will<br>
>> be open sourced, and so, it'd be an honour to contribute this to the<br>
>> OpenNebula ecosystem.<br>
>><br>
>> This is an ongoing development, and the TM driver is just a small part of<br>
>> it. On the other hand, in our environment it has been quite stable for a<br>
>> couple of weeks now, so I think it's time to do an alpha release.<br>
>><br>
>> I'll use the weekend to gather all its dependencies, wrap it up and write<br>
>> some docs about it. Expect a release in the beginning of next week.<br>
><br>
> So finally it's out; please find it attached. Sorry for the delay.<br>
><br>
> Please note that this is an alpha release, so I'm not sure that this should go<br>
> into the Ecosystem yet, first I'd like to hear a few reports on whether the<br>
> installation procedure worked and if it's complete. So anyone interested,<br>
> please test it!<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> --<br>
> cc<br>
><br>
><br>
>> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Andreas Ntaflos <<a href="mailto:daff@pseudoterminal.org">daff@pseudoterminal.org</a>><br>
>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > > On Friday 03 September 2010 00:28:23 Székelyi Szabolcs wrote:<br>
>> > >> We're using iSCSI targets directly (one target per vm), automatically<br>
>> > >> created and initialized (cloned) from images on vm deploy. Althogh<br>
>> > >> the target is based on IET behind gigabit links, it works quite<br>
>> > >> well: we haven't done performance benchmarks (yet), but the<br>
>> > >> installation time of virtual machines is kinda same than on real<br>
>> > >> hardware.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > That sounds interesting and very similar to what we hope to achieve<br>
>> > > using OpenNebula and a central storage server (as I've posted a few<br>
>> > > hours ago, not realising this thread here is very similar in nature).<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > >> We developed a custom TM driver for this, because this approach makes<br>
>> > >> live migration trickier, since just before live migration the target<br>
>> > >> host needs to log in to the iSCSI target hosting the disks of the<br>
>> > >> vm, and this is something ONE can't do, so we used libvirt hooks to<br>
>> > >> do this -- works like a charm. Libvirt hooks are also good for<br>
>> > >> reattaching virtual machines to their virtual networks on live<br>
>> > >> migration -- again something ONE doesn't do.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Would you care to go into a little detail regarding your custom TM<br>
>> > > driver? Maybe even post the sources? I'd be very interested in learning<br>
>> > > more about your approach to this.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Thanks!<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Andreas<br>
>> > > --<br>
>> > > Andreas Ntaflos<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4<br>
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