2012/11/17 Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com>: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Satoshi Kobayashi [mailto:satosh...@stratosphere.co.jp] >> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:41 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: About the development approach of KVM Agent on master >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have some questions/issues about the development approach of KVM >> Agent. >> >> 1. Is there any document written about it? >> I could not find it in cwiki.apache.org. Or is it in other places? >> >> 2. How should it be developed (in future)? >> I looked at the source code of KVM Agent. It can not be launched from >> Maven. >> (I found that just executing is not enough because KVM Agent requires some >> configurations and scripts) It seems to require packaging, whenever change >> is added to the code. >> I think that it is probably inefficient. > > Kvm artifacts are packaged into plugins/hypervisors/kvm/target/kvm-agent.zip, > scp kvm-agent.zip to kvm host, unzip, and execute run.sh, will start the kvm > agent. > Note: > Run.sh needs to be fixed, as the classpath is incorrect. > Need to modify conf/agent.properties, add guid, zone/pod/cluster, > public{private/guest}.network.device etc. > Need to create zone/pod/kvm cluster before start run.sh, otherwise, kvm > agent can't be added into mgt server.
I did not know that approach. nice. > >> >> A task required to develop from Maven which I think is the following. >> - Add a configuration of maven-exec-plugin for KVM Agent to pom.xml. >> - Add a configuration for m2e plugin of Eclipse (like "mvn jetty:run") > > +1 > >> - Skip some checks in the development environment (for example, >> agent.properties) >> - Add configurations and scripts to be used to the path (or from args) > > > +1 > >> - Add a tool to cleanup a KVM host (optional?) >> >> Do you have any ideas? > > I am thinking about running kvm agent as a http server(maybe put agent code > into a jetty server), mgt server talking to kvm agent through http instead of > tcp. > Kvm agent code will be a dummy http server, always mgt server start the talk > to agent. > You can easily using mvn jetty:run to start the agent http server. > Easy for test, you can send a command to kvm agent through wget/curl/browser > etc. > > How do you think? That is fantastic! I want "Management Server simulator" for debugging of Agent. It is any http client or browser if Agent is your architecture. > >> >> Regards, >> Satoshi
