Excerpts from Dmitry Mescheryakov's message of 2013-12-10 08:25:26 -0800: > And one more thing, > > Sandy Walsh pointed to the client Rackspace developed and use - [1], [2]. > Its design is somewhat different and can be expressed by the following > formulae: > > App -> Host (XenStore) <-> Guest Agent > > (taken from the wiki [3]) > > It has an obvious disadvantage - it is hypervisor dependent and currently > implemented for Xen only. On the other hand such design should not have > shared facility vulnerability as Agent accesses the server not directly but > via XenStore (which AFAIU is compute node based). >
I don't actually see any advantage to this approach. It seems to me that it would be simpler to expose and manage a single network protocol than it would be to expose hypervisor level communications for all hypervisors. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
