Re: [Openstack] Local storage and Xen with Libxl

2013-04-19 Thread Jim Fehlig
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:43:23PM +0300, Cristian Tomoiaga wrote: As for the compute part, I may need to work with libvirt but I want to avoid that if possible. Libxl was meant for stacks right ? Again, this may not be acceptable and I would like to know.

Re: [Openstack] Local storage and Xen with Libxl

2013-04-19 Thread Jim Fehlig
Cristian Tomoiaga wrote: Hi Jim, Thank you! I'll check libvirt in more detail to make sure nothing I need is missing. With xend it should work. I'm planning ahead and want to deploy on Libxl but for the sake of argument I will probably use both KVM (Daniel is to blame here :) ) and Xen

Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset combination?

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Fehlig
-michel.deschenes=ubisoft@lists.launchpad.net] De la part de Jim Fehlig Envoyé : 18 juillet 2012 17:56 À : John Garbutt Cc : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Objet : Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset combination? John Garbutt wrote: To my knowledge, if you

Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset combination?

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Fehlig
. --- I have Jim Fehlig in CC since this could be of interest to him. We managed to have the GPU passthrough of NVIDIA cards using Xen 4.1.2 but ONLY with the xenapi (actually the whole XCP toolstack), with libvirt/Xen 4.1.2 and even libvirt/Xen 4.1.3, I only manage to apss through radeon GPUs

Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset combination?

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Fehlig
John Garbutt wrote: To my knowledge, if you want to use Xen, using XCP or XenServer (i.e. using XenAPI driver) is the way to go. If you look at the contributions to the drivers, you can have a good guess at who is using them. I know people are going into production on XenAPI, not heard

Re: [Openstack] debugging a db migration script

2012-07-17 Thread Jim Fehlig
the errors :). Regards, Jim On 07/17/2012 11:59 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote: I'm working on a patch that adds a column to the compute_nodes table in the nova db, but it seems my db migration script fails when calling 'db sync' in stack.sh. I tried running the command manually, same failure: stack

Re: [Openstack] debugging a db migration script

2012-07-17 Thread Jim Fehlig
Adam Young wrote: On 07/16/2012 11:59 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote: I'm working on a patch that adds a column to the compute_nodes table in the nova db, but it seems my db migration script fails when calling 'db sync' in stack.sh. I tried running the command manually, same failure: stack@virt71

Re: [Openstack] Support for snapshot of LVM backend image

2012-07-16 Thread Jim Fehlig
Boris Filippov wrote: But qemu can also write the vm state outside of the backend image, which should be usable with all image backends. Use that instead managedSave? This should suffice. Save VM state, suspend domain - do snapshot - restore VM with previous state? For best

Re: [Openstack] One question on the compute_filter

2012-07-16 Thread Jim Fehlig
Jiang, Yunhong wrote: Hi, Joseph I’m working on the patch for blueprints https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/update-flavor-key-value, to add/delete the extra_specs for flavor through nova-manage. I’m still setting up my environment to push the patch. However,

[Openstack] [RFC] Add more host checks to the compute filter

2012-07-03 Thread Jim Fehlig
to gerrit. Regards, Jim From bc96fdf618a2b9426f4c5db59fc087f849ac9873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Fehlig jfeh...@suse.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:54:43 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add more host checks to the compute filter As discussed in a previous version of this patch [1], this change adds

[Openstack] [nova] RFC - filtering compute nodes in a mixed environment

2012-06-25 Thread Jim Fehlig
filter for example. Regards, Jim [1] http://openstack.markmail.org/search/?q=improve%20xen#query:improve%20xen+page:1+mid:knmnylknf2imnruy+state:results From bb8777a415d5db22b83971357882261fbef092a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Fehlig jfeh...@suse.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:54:43 -0600

[Openstack] Improving Xen support in the libvirt driver

2012-05-09 Thread Jim Fehlig
Hi, I've been tinkering with improving Xen support in the libvirt driver and wanted to discuss a few issues before submitting patches. Even the latest upstream release of Xen (4.1.x) contains a rather old qemu, version 0.10.2, which rejects qcow2 images with cluster size 64K. The libvirt