[trying a different address] On 03/22/2011 12:58 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/22/2011 10:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> The Open Nebula driver has been unmaintained since it was first >> introduced. The only commits have been for tree-wide cleanups. >> It also has a major design flaw, in that it only knows about guests >> that it has created itself, which makes it of very limited use. >> >> Discussions wrt evolution of the VMWare ESX driver, concluded that >> it should limit itself to single-node ESX operation and not try to >> manage the multi-node architecture of VirtualCenter. Open Nebula >> is a cluster like Virtual Center, not a single node system, so >> reasoning applies. > > s/so reasoning/so the same reasoning/ > >> >> The DeltaCloud project includes an Open Nebula driver and is a much >> better fit architecturally, since it is explicitly targetting the >> distributed multihost cluster scenario. >> >> Thus this patch deletes the libvirt Open Nebula driver with the >> recommendation that people use DeltaCloud for managing it instead. > > Given your arguments, I'm okay with the idea, but like Laine pointed > out, it might be wise to get feedback from the opennebula guys first > (commit b811851 shows that Abel MÃguez RodrÃguez was the original > contributor in May 2009, now in cc). Direct mail to Abel bounced; now trying the address from http://opennebula.org/about:contact. For reference, this is from a thread starting at: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg01030.html On 03/22/2011 12:08 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > I knew nothing about Open Nebula, so I went searching. I noticed the > following on its about page: > > *"User Interfaces*: Unix-like command line and libvirt interface for the > management of the cloud infrastructure" > > (http://opennebula.org/documentation:features) > > Since they're claiming the libvirt driver as a feature, they will > probably have something to say about this removal. At the very least > they'll want to point to the DeltaCloud driver instead of libvirt. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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