On 15/04/13 16:34, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 15.04.2013 04:43, harryxiyou wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 08:34:18AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 10.04.2013 15:13, harryxiyou wrote:
Hi all,
I've also got some ideas like following for GSOC 2013.
Storage driver jobs.
Currently, there is no Libvirt storage API to rename storage volume,
storage pool, snapshot, etc. There is also no Libvirt API to move
volume from one pool to another using libvirt API. Possibly those
pools could have different backend (lvm, dir, ...). So i wanna finish
these jobs for Libvirt during GSOC 2013. See following in details.
1, Rename storage volume. I will develop ' virsh vol-rename xxx'
option for virsh tool.
2, Rename storage pool. I will develop 'virsh pool-rename xxx'
option for virsh tool.
3, Rename snapshot. I will develop 'virsh snapshot-rename xxx'
option for virsh tool.
I am not sure we want *rename virsh commands. Not only for storage, but
in general. And even if we do want these, they don't require a new API.
They can be implemented with simple vir*GetXML(); vir*Define();
vir*Undefine();
Actually I disagree - I think you want explicit APIs for renames, so that
it can be done atomically / with minimal risk of failure halfway.
4, Move volume from one pool to another. I will develop 'virsh vol-move xxx'
option for virsh tool.
This one makes more sense, however I am worried about difficulty a bit.
A GSoC project should take 3 months for a student to complete. This is
something that even unexperienced user can accomplish in less than a month.
Isn't all the libvirt functionality for this already existing? it it
is basically just virStorageVolCreateFrom(...original vol) and then
delete the original volume.
Michal said earlier that virsh vol-move seemed too small a task.
Do you think that these 4 tasks together merit a 12-week project?
Let me give a summary about my ideas for Libvirt of GSOC 2013.
Libvirt storage jobs.
This project includes renaming storage volume(storage pool, snapshot,etc),
moving volume from one pool to another, the capability support for storage
driver (like virsh capabilities for the hypervisor drivers, e.g. what pool types
it supports, what volume types each pool type supports, even may what
operations/APIs the pool type support, ...etc).
If these ones(or portions of them) are deserved to do, we should add them
to our wiki of GSOC 2013. Students will submit their applications for these
ideas at April 22nd. Could anyone please review these ideas(or portions
of them)? Thanks very much in advance.
Makes sense. However, I would drop renaming limitation just for volumes.
At least not specifically say in description it's just a 'volume
renaming'. This as advantage that we are more flexible and if student is
doing good, he/she can introduce renaming to other libvirt objects as
well. If he/she doesn't have so much time, doing renaming just for
volumes is fine.
Just a side note, I am still not huge fan of introducing a special API
for this renaming. Doing it in virsh makes sense, however introducing a
new API seems like overkill to me. I mean, if mgmt application has 2
threads fighting over one domain, it has to already have a mutual
exclusion procedure. If there are no such threads, then we are safe per se.
But if we are ever going to have a rename API, it's gonna be hard time
for everyone. We would have to move files (e.g. associated snapshots,
monitor socket, logs, etc) and what if we fail somewhere in the middle
of the process. We would have to perform a rollback.
Only supports inactive objects is a good start, supporting active
objects means a lot of work to do (object name is refered in various
places), hard to implement, even may not deserved to do. It doesn't
hurt to destroy the object first if he wants to rename it.
And I guess for most of the cases, it has to be destroyed first to let the
new name take effect. E.g. For a domain, the qemu process has to
be restarted to use the new name.
Osier
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