On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/2012 07:16 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote: >> >> Does anyone think this functionality would be useful? This is primarily to >> prevent the host from being starved when the allocation of guests have the >> host overcommitted/oversubscribed. > > Yes, this functionality would be useful. In fact, I even proposed a > possible design, and Dan chimed in with some improvements (but no one > has coded anything towards that design) ages ago: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg01546.html > > Basically, you would create a virGroupPtr that describes the entire > resources you are willing to allow to VMs, then ensure that all VMs are > members of that virGroupPtr.
Thanks for the response and some pointers to relevant design information. If I get some free cycles to implement such a feature I will get back to you with some more targeted design questions or maybe even a possible implementation. Dusty -- libvir-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
