Re: [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] Parallels Server Bare Metal driver stub

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Eric,


Thank you for your comments!


I'll check related to HyperV adoption commits and will try to fix necessary things in the next patch series.


Links to product pages:

http://www.parallels.com/products/server/baremetal/sp/resources/

http://www.parallels.com/download/server/


> Is this driver more like qemu,

> where it requires talking to a daemon like libvirtd (and where remote

> access is provided by libvirt), or more like esx, where it is

> translating things at the client level while talking to an esx protocol

> (and where remote access is provided by the hypervisor)?

We have a userspace daemon on PSBM node which is responsible for incoming requests management (like libvirtd) and client library (libprl_sdk.so) for remote/local access to it. Communication protocol is XML-based over TCP.


> Is it really Linux-only, or if those

> programs someday exist on other platforms, have you artificially

> restricted this driver?

Virtualization SDK is available for 3 platforms (Linux, Windows and Mac OS X) already. I decided to restrict it initially in order to achieve something usable on the single platform first, than extend it to others. Patches for extension will be small - just remove this restriction and add load of the shared library on appropriate paths. Just want to avoid additional testing on the adoption stage.


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Thanks,

Dmitry.

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 09:39:14 PM Eric Blake wrote:

> On 09/26/2011 05:59 AM, Dmitry Mishin wrote:

> > Parallels Server Bare Metal is a virtualization solution which allows to

> > run both Containers (OpenVZ-like) and virtual machines (like any other

> > hardware hypervisor).

>

> Any web page link so we can familiarize ourselves with the project?

>

> > This patch implements initial driver stub with almost no functionality

> > except an ability to open and close driver. At the same time it contains

> > initialization of Parallels API and clearly demonstrates supposed

> > approach to future driver implementation. In particular, I suppose to

> > use parallels-virtualization-sdk library provisioned with the PSBM

> > distribution (and separately also) for PSBM's virtual servers

> > management.

> >

> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin<dim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > ---

> >

> > autobuild.sh | 1 +

> > configure.ac | 21 +++++

> > include/libvirt/virterror.h | 1 +

> > src/Makefile.am | 22 +++++

> > src/README | 1 +

> > src/driver.h | 1 +

> > src/libvirt.c | 9 ++

> > src/psbm/psbm_api.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++

> > src/psbm/psbm_api.h | 59 ++++++++++++

> > src/psbm/psbm_driver.c | 208

> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/psbm/psbm_driver.h

> > | 32 +++++++

> > src/psbm/psbm_private.h | 49 ++++++++++

> > src/util/virterror.c | 3 +

>

> Missing a hypervisor stub page under docs/ (that would be a good place

> to include the link I mentioned above). Is this driver more like qemu,

> where it requires talking to a daemon like libvirtd (and where remote

> access is provided by libvirt), or more like esx, where it is

> translating things at the client level while talking to an esx protocol

> (and where remote access is provided by the hypervisor)?

>

> Missing changes to libvirt.spec.in and mingw32-libvirt.spec.in for

> making compilation of the new driver conditional when building for

> Fedora and friends.

>

> I'd feel a bit more comfortable reviewing this patch if you also had a

> followon patch that can do some basic APIs, such as start and stop

> guests, or even just list the names of running guests. Of course, those

> should be separate patches, but it is better to push a patch series that

> makes the hypervisor driver useful, rather than just pushing this patch

> in isolation where the hypervisor driver can't do anything at all. Look

> at the recent HyperV hypervisor driver addition (around commit 5e3b0f8)

> for an example of what all is needed to make this driver addition

> successful.

>

> > +

> > +if test "$with_psbm" = "yes"&& test "$with_linux" = "no"; then

> > + AC_MSG_ERROR([The PSBM driver can be enabled on Linux only.])

>

> Are there any libraries that have to be linked in? Is this all calls to

> third-party program(s) (in which case, should configure probe for the

> absolute path of that program)? Is it really Linux-only, or if those

> programs someday exist on other platforms, have you artificially

> restricted this driver?

>

> > +int psbmApiInit(struct psbm_driver *driver)

> > +{

> > + const char *libname = "libprl_sdk.so";

>

> Looks like you are using library calls, so configure needs to probe for

> the existence of this library.

>

> > +

> > +static virDriver psbmDriver = {

> > + .no = VIR_DRV_PSBM,

> > + .name = "PSBM",

> > + .open = psbmOpen, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .close = psbmClose, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .type = psbmGetType, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .version = psbmGetVersion, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .nodeGetInfo = nodeGetInfo, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .listDomains = psbmListDomains, /* 0.3.1 */

> > + .numOfDomains = psbmNumDomains, /* 0.3.1 */

>

> Wrong version. You are adding this functions as of 0.9.7, not 0.3.1.

>

> I haven't reviewed this closely, because I'm not familiar enough with

> PSBM yet, but in general, I'm in favor of adding hypervisor drivers, so

> I hope to see this go somewhere.


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