I have a similar question. I want to use VirtualBox for a project that I have. And to the best of my knowledge, cloudstack doesn't support type II hypervisors like VirtualBox. What should I do to support VirtualBox in CloudStack.
Regards, On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.invalid> wrote: > Which hypervisor are you wanting to implement​? > > Simon Weller/615-312-6068 > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Smith [john.smith....@gmail.com] > Received: Thursday, 18 May 2017, 5:29PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org [dev@cloudstack.apache.org] > Subject: Extend CloudStack for a new hypervisor > > Greetings! > > I have a need to extend CloudStack to support an additional hypervisor. > This is not something I consider strategic for CloudStack itself, but I > have a project with a very specific need. > > I have a development background but am not an active developer right now > ... so looking forward to getting back in the saddle! I've never developed > against the CloudStack tree before. > > I can't find any docs on how one would introduce support for a new > hypervisor (eg. what classes, methods, etc, need to be implemented, > extended, etc) and checking the source tree I can't easily see if there is > a base to build from. I would appreciate any pointers about where to start > looking to save me going through the entire tree from scratch. > > The standard CloudStack concepts should be easy enough (ha!) to map 1:1 to > this additional hypervisor (including primary & secondary storage, router & > secondary storage VMs, the networking concepts, etc) so I'm hoping that I > can simply implement it like a VMware or Xen backend ... > > Thanks in advance! > > John. > -- Tessema Mindaye Mengistu Teaching Assistant and PhD Student Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University, IL, USA Tel: (mob) +618-303-4788 E-mail: tessem <tesse...@cs.aau.edu.et>a.mengi...@siu.edu
