Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-23 Thread Rick Troth 
dude ... lack of inflection ... irony lost.

It's a good idea. I was trying to hint that you might get more traction
by turning it around: instead of driving KVM via SMAPI, drive z/VM via
LIBVIRT.

-- R; <><


On 06/23/2017 09:49 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied.
>
> I guess KVM and z/VM are just apples and oranges.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Neale Ferguson 
> wrote:
>
>> We explored this many years ago and attempted to map libvirt API to SMAPI.
>>
>> On 6/22/17, 11:38 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rick Troth"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> insane!
>>>
>>> That's almost as crazy as a LIBVIRT interface to z/VM.
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Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-23 Thread Michael MacIsaac 
Thanks to all who replied.

I guess KVM and z/VM are just apples and oranges.

-Mike

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Neale Ferguson 
wrote:

> We explored this many years ago and attempted to map libvirt API to SMAPI.
>
> On 6/22/17, 11:38 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rick Troth"
>  wrote:
>
> >insane!
> >
> >That's almost as crazy as a LIBVIRT interface to z/VM.
>
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Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-23 Thread Neale Ferguson 
We explored this many years ago and attempted to map libvirt API to SMAPI.

On 6/22/17, 11:38 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rick Troth"
 wrote:

>insane!
>
>That's almost as crazy as a LIBVIRT interface to z/VM.

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Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-22 Thread Timothy Sipples 
Do the z/VM Cloud Manager Appliance (CMA) and xCAT provide what you need?

http://www.vm.ibm.com/sysman/openstk.html


Timothy Sipples
IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA
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Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-22 Thread Rick Troth 
insane!

That's almost as crazy as a LIBVIRT interface to z/VM.

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On 06/22/2017 08:33 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
> Hello linux-390 list,
>
> I was talking about z/VM, Linux and the SMAPI layer with others who also
> work with KVM on z as a hipervisor (myself, I have never had the
> opportunity to try it).
>
> Then I had a crazy thought that what might be cool is an interface to SMAPI
> for KVM.  Yes, the verbs and objects would be all wrong, but in principle,
> would it be doable?  Could you have one 'front end', calling SMAPIs and
> performing operations on both z/VM and KVM? This is probably naive, but I
> thinking along the lines of Linux's Hardware Abstraction Layer.
>
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Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

2017-06-22 Thread Michael MacIsaac 
Hello linux-390 list,

I was talking about z/VM, Linux and the SMAPI layer with others who also
work with KVM on z as a hipervisor (myself, I have never had the
opportunity to try it).

Then I had a crazy thought that what might be cool is an interface to SMAPI
for KVM.  Yes, the verbs and objects would be all wrong, but in principle,
would it be doable?  Could you have one 'front end', calling SMAPIs and
performing operations on both z/VM and KVM? This is probably naive, but I
thinking along the lines of Linux's Hardware Abstraction Layer.

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