-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Imre and Áron,
This is great! This is something we (at NCSU) have wanted but have not had the time to develop. I know there have been others interested in it as well. Thanks for developing and contributing it. Josh On Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:43:31 PM [email protected] wrote: > Dear all, > > to support our basic virtualization technologies lab, our colleague, Áron > Tóth has developed a "virtualESXi" module that enables ESXi reservations - > that is, the user gets an ESXi 5.x instance or cluster (and > hypothetically, the VMs located in its local datastore during VCL image > capture - currently we start clean ESXi-s) instead of a Linux/Windows/... > instance. This is basically nested virtualization brought to VCL. VT-x or > AMD-V hardware support is enough to start with, although you need Intel > EPT or AMD RVI for running 64 bit guests on the virtualized hypervisor. > Currently, our solution supports only ESXi over ESXi. > > The OS module can be found at: > https://svn.inf.mit.bme.hu/projects/vcl/esxi-module/ W.r.t. provisioning > the standard VMware module can be used. A new Connectmethod was defined > (vSphere client on port 443). Before capture, some preparatory steps have > to be performed (see the SVN). > > VCL also has to be patched slightly (see the SVN). We intend to make this > the cornerstone of "Cloud over Cloud" deployments as in "VCL over VCL" or > "OpenStack over VCL" (something Áron is working on) - this is necessary > for teaching cloud technologies and cyber-physical systems with VCL. > > Your comments and insights would be appreciated. The module was developed > for our specific needs so it is not fully in-line with the usual VCL > design philosophy and it is a bit rough around edges. Anyhow, if you think > that the community would be interested in this functionality we are > certainly open to polish it and document it properly. > > Best regards > Imre Kocsis > on behalf of the BME-DMIS VCL team > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Imre Kocsis > assistant lecturer > > Fault Tolerant Systems Research Group > Department of Measurement and Information Systems > Budapest University of Technology and Economics > > mail: [email protected] > phone: +36-1-463-2006 > mobile: +36-20-514-6881 > skype: kocsis_imre - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMQk38ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQMrIQCfcCRD4xYsCnUddRJJm6T8njqg j90An21hE6nMXa863GqxTT6WX3cXrRjT =2cdI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
