Re: The New KVM Provisioning module

[Aaron Peeler <fa...@ncsu.edu>]

Xianqing,

Sounds great.
Yes. Attach the work to the jira issue - the prov module and the kvm
host setup script.

Look forward to seeing it.

thanks,
Aaron

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Xianqing Yu <xi...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> Thank your interesting.
>
> I looked at the vmware Provisioning module code, and try to learn and reuse some code from that. Because there are some many functions in VMware.pm, I probably start with some basic functions, and make it work first.
>
> About structure, I has several functions inside my kvm.pm, including, initialize, load, capture, node_status and get_image_size. I already finish most of them except for capture function. So basically, kvm module will do very similar thing as VMware.pm. And it generates a XML file to define the VM (like VMX file in VMware) and creates VM on KVM by sending ssh command "virsh create vm.xml". I have a script which can install necessary packages and set up proper network configuration on the host. So I can use that with xCAT to create kickstart image for KVM host. I also can use the script to configure existing Fedora machine.
>
> I can have my script and kvm provisioning code ready within three days, so you guys can take a look. So should I publish it on the JIRE?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xianqing Yu
>
> WSTI Intern
> xianyu@us.ibm.com
>
> -----Aaron Peeler <fa...@ncsu.edu> wrote: -----
>
>    To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
>    From: Aaron Peeler <fa...@ncsu.edu>
>    Date: 07/29/2011 08:58AM
>    Subject: Re: The New KVM Provisioning module
>
>    Hi Xianqing,
>
>    This is great. I'd like to work with you this module.
>
>    What are your thoughts on the structure?
>
>    Have you looked at the work Andy did on the VMware Prov module:
>    /..../lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/VMware
>
>
>    Aaron
>
>
>
>    On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Xianqing Yu <xi...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>    >
>    >
>    >
>    > Hi VCL community,
>    >
>    > I am developing KVM Provisioning Module for VCL system, which is based on
>    > my previous version of KVM Provisioning Module. You can find out my
>    > previous KVM module's information from here,
>    > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-339
>    >
>    > Currently, I am trying to make this module's code as generic as possible.
>    > And I will including these features inside this new version of module.
>    > 1. The module will use libvirt API to manipulate the VM on KVM hosts. The
>    > main reason behind this is that libvirt is widely used API, many people in
>    > the community talked about this before, and libvirt support for different
>    > hypervisors, such as KVM, Xen, Qemu, etc.. It would be easier to port this
>    > module to support other hypervisor in future.
>    > 2. A setup scripted will be developed to help the users to setup host much
>    > easier.
>    > 3. A document descripts how to install this module.
>    >
>    > Welcome everyone to join the discussion with me if you are interesting
>    > about. Such as, is there any new features you expect to see in this module?
>    > Do you have any suggestion about this module? Or you have any questions
>    > about this module? Please let me know.
>    >
>    > Thanks,
>    >
>    > Xianqing Yu
>    > WSTI Intern
>    > xianyu@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
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>    Virtual Computing Lab
>    NC State University
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