Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-15 Thread Marcus Sorensen
ote: >> >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 PM >> > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk >> &g

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-10 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:58:55PM +0530, Edison Su wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 PM > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: [D

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-05 Thread Marcus Sorensen
ow...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 PM >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk >>> >>> I've been thinking about how to tackle this, written a little concept >>> c

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-05 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 03/05/2013 07:28 PM, Edison Su wrote: -Original Message- From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk I've been thinking about how to t

RE: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-05 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk > > I've been thinking about how to tackle this

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-04 Thread Marcus Sorensen
I've been thinking about how to tackle this, written a little concept code, and it seems fairly straightforward to include our own little python daemon that speaks JSON via this local character device in the system vm. I'm assuming we'd start it up at the beginning of cloud-early-config. What I'm

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-04 Thread Marcus Sorensen
I tested this with Rohit's systemvm from master. It works fine, provided you install the qemu-guest-agent software and modify the libvirt xml definition of the system vm to include something like: Then on the host you can connect to the /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/v

Re: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-04 Thread Marcus Sorensen
I think this just requires an updated system vm (the virtio-serial portion). I've played a bit with the old debian 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem one and can't get the device nodes to show up, even though the /boot/config shows that it has CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y. However, if I try this with a CentOS 6.3 VM,

RE: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk

2013-03-04 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 12:13 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] getting rid of KVM patchdisk > > For those who don't know (this probably doesn't matter, but...), when KVM > br