On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:23:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Based on a report that phyp is undocumented: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2012-July/msg00013.html > > * docs/drvphyp.html.in (phyp): New file. > * docs/drivers.html.in: List it. > --- > > Following up on an old thread. This is probably incomplete or > possibly even inaccurate, but I'd rather have something than nothing. > If I don't get any feedback within a week, I'm pushing this as-is. > > docs/drivers.html.in | 1 + > docs/drvphyp.html.in | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 docs/drvphyp.html.in > > diff --git a/docs/drivers.html.in b/docs/drivers.html.in > index 24387d0..307d286 100644 > --- a/docs/drivers.html.in > +++ b/docs/drivers.html.in > @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ > <li><strong><a href="drvvmware.html">VMware Workstation/Player</a></strong></li> > <li><strong><a href="drvxen.html">Xen</a></strong></li> > <li><strong><a href="drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V</a></strong></li> > + <li><strong><a href="drvphyp.html">IBM PowerVM (phyp)</a></strong></li> > </ul> > > <h2><a name="storage">Storage drivers</a></h2> > diff --git a/docs/drvphyp.html.in b/docs/drvphyp.html.in > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..7d97fa4 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/docs/drvphyp.html.in > @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ > +<html><body> > + <h1>IBM PowerVM hypervisor driver (phyp)</h1> > + <ul id="toc"></ul> > + <p> > + The IBM PowerVM driver can manage both HMC and IVM PowerVM > + guests. VIOS connections are tunneled through HMC. > + </p> > + > + > + <h2><a name="project">Project Links</a></h2> > + <ul> > + <li> > + The <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/index.html";>IBM > + PowerVM</a> hypervisor > + </li> > + </ul> > + > + > + <h2><a name="uri">Connections to the PowerVM driver</a></h2> > + <p> > + Some example remote connection URIs for the driver are: > + </p> > +<pre> > +phyp://user@hmc/system (HMC connection) > +phyp://user@ivm/system (IVM connection) > +</pre> > + <p> > + <strong>Note</strong>: In contrast to other drivers, the > + PowerVM (or phyp) driver is a client-side-only driver. Therefore, the > + <a href="remote.html">remote transport mechanism</a> provided by the > + remote driver and libvirtd will not work, and you cannot use URIs like > + <code>phyp+ssh://example.com</code>. > + </p> I think it whould be interesting to point that phyp uses ssh internally, so phyp+ssh would be redundant. > + > + > + <h3><a name="uriformat">URI Format</a></h3> > + <p> > + URIs have this general form (<code>[...]</code> marks an > + optional part, <code>{...|...}</code> marks a mandatory choice). > + </p> > +<pre> > +phyp://[username@]{hmc|ivm}/managed_system Actually, in the entire phyp URI is mandatory, the correct way should be: phyp://username@{hmc|ivm}/managed_system Or are you assuming that the username can be used from environment variable like in ssh? Regards, -- Eduardo Otubo Software Engineer Linux Technology Center IBM Systems & Technology Group -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list