Re: [openstack-dev] [hyper-v] Hyper-V Support Will be Removed Forever ?

2017-11-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
to Linux+KVM or VMware where there is no caching for vm guests. On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Alessandro Pilotti <apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> wrote: Hyper-V support in OpenStack is alive and well, see for example this blog series compa

Re: [openstack-dev] [hyper-v] Hyper-V Support Will be Removed Forever ?

2017-11-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hyper-V support in OpenStack is alive and well, see for example this blog series comparing KVM and Hyper-V: [1]. The fact that SUSE / HPE might or might not support it, is just a matter of commercial choices unrelated to the upstream projects (which is what matters in this ML). Other vendors

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Could you tell me the best way to develop openstack in Windows?

2016-05-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi, This is a matter of personal preference, most people use lightweight editors like for example: Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Notepad++, Atom or even vim. Others prefer a full IDE with integrated debugger, like Visual Studio, PyCharm, Komodo, etc. Alessandro On 2 mai 2016, at 11:22,

Re: [openstack-dev] [hyper-v] oslo.privsep vs Windows

2015-11-25 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Angus, First thanks for your concern on code portability! It still happens that we have to ask to revert patches on Oslo projects due to some Linux specific code that we discover only when the actual Oslo modules are used by Nova, Neutron, Cinder or other projects. Typically a running

Re: [openstack-dev] [hyper-v] oslo.privsep vs Windows

2015-11-25 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
has to be easy for me or I'm just not going to be able to sustain the effort required :-/ ) - Gus On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 11:56 Alessandro Pilotti <apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> wrote: Hi Angus, First thanks for your concern on code

Re: [openstack-dev] [hyper-v] oslo.privsep vs Windows

2015-11-25 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
, just a 30s outline in an email would be really useful :-/ - Gus On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 13:13 Alessandro Pilotti <apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> wrote: Angus, "I'm afraid this has to be easy for me or I'm just not going to be able to

[openstack-dev] Hyper-V 2008 R2 support

2015-08-04 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, Just a quick note on the Windows editions support matrix updates for the Nova Hyper-V driver and Neutron networking-hyperv ML2 agent: We are planning to drop legacy Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 support starting with Liberty. Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012 and above

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V 2008 R2 support

2015-08-04 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 04 Aug 2015, at 17:56, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 02:34:19PM +, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: Hi guys, Just a quick note on the Windows editions support matrix updates for the Nova Hyper-V driver and Neutron networking-hyperv ML2 agent

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron][hyper-v] Instance can't get fixed ip on hyper-v compute node

2015-06-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Lily, What version are you running, Icehouse, Juno, Kilo or master? A full copy of the nova-compute.log and neutron_hyperv_agent.log on a pastebin might be helpful. Additionally, your neutron.conf from the neutron server could help along with your neutron network configuration. Finally, the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] What happened with the Hyper-V generation 2 VMs spec?

2015-05-04 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Matt, We originally proposed a Juno spec for this blueprint, but it got postponed to Kilo where it has been approved without a spec together with other hypervisor specific blueprints (the so called “trivial” case). The BP itself is completed and marked accordingly on launchpad. Patches

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder Third-Party CI: what next? (was Re: [cinder] Request exemption for removal of NetApp FC drivers (no voting CI))

2015-03-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
I also absolutely agree that Mike did a great job on the communication with the driver maintainers and a lot more, especially in the hectic days around the K-3 deadline. Removing any driver lacking CI testing was just the right thing to do, even if this affected our SMB3 driver. Hopefully this is

[openstack-dev] [nova] Feature Freeze Exception Request

2015-02-06 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi all, I’d like to ask a FFE for the Hyper-V Rescue feature Patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127159/ Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-rescue It’s a feature parity blueprint with no impact outside of the Hyper-V driver. It already received a +2

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking Kilo priorities

2014-12-04 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Michael, On 25 Nov 2014, at 02:35, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi Michael, On 25 Nov 2014, at 01:57, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: First off, sorry for the slow reply. I

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking Kilo priorities

2014-11-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
If you feel a change has been blocking on review for too long and is important, then please do raise it in the Open Discussion section of the nova meeting. Michael On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi, Not seeing any driver (Hyper-V

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking Kilo priorities

2014-11-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 25 Nov 2014, at 02:35, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi Michael, On 25 Nov 2014, at 01:57, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: First off, sorry for the slow reply. I

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking Kilo priorities

2014-11-21 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi, Not seeing any driver (Hyper-V, VMWare, etc) related priority in this etherpad worries me a bit. My concern is mostly related to the fact that we have in Nova a significative number of driver related blueprints code already under review for Kilo and we are already drifting into the old

Re: [openstack-dev] [qa] nova get-password does not seem to work

2014-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
AFAIK cloud-init is not handling it ATM, while Cloudbase-Init supports it out of the box on Windows (and soon FreeBSD). You need to deploy your instance with an SSH keypair and use HTTP metadata, required for POSTing back the encrypted password. It does not work with ConfigDrive. Alessandro

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

2014-09-04 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi all, This is an issue that has been discussed quite a few times. As I was fearing the bottleneck effect is getting worse with each release. Nova grew simply too much and even though features like networking and block storage have been spun off at some point in time, it still lacks the

Re: [openstack-dev] generate Windows exe

2014-08-20 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Viktor, I just submitted the patch, adding you as co-author with the email address that you used here, please let me know if this is ok for you: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/115782/ The patch is even easier compared to what you sent as all we need is to add declaratively the requested

Re: [openstack-dev] Time to Samba! :-)

2014-08-18 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Thiago, Like for the Windows case, where we have Heat templates for AD DC and other MSFT related workloads (Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc) [1], the best place in OpenStack for Samba 4 DC is a dedicated Heat template. Heat is the de facto workload orchestration standard for

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Spec freeze exception] Controlled shutdown of GuestOS

2014-07-29 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Glad to see that the Bp is hypervisor independent. We'll provide the Hyper-V implementation, based on this TODO comment: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/99916/3/nova/virt/hyperv/driver.py Thanks, Alessandro On 25.07.2014, at 03:08, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Yep, I think

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Boot from ISO feature status

2014-07-28 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, In the Hyper-V driver camp we waited to add the boot from ISO feature because of this issue. Booting from ISO w/o local storage is almost useless for most scenarios. It'd be great if we could reach consensus on this and propose some consistent BPs for all supported drivers in early

[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Instance rescue support in Hyper-V

2014-07-18 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi everyone, I’d like to propose the following driver feature parity blueprint spec for an expection: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/105042 This blueprint introduces rescue instance support in the Nova Hyper-V driver for feature parity with other drivers. The Hyper-V Nova driver is

[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Add support for attaching volumes via SMB in Hyper-V

2014-07-18 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi everyone, I’d like to propose the following driver blueprint spec for an expection: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/102190 Currently, the Hyper-V driver only allows attaching volumes via iSCSI. The purpose of this blueprint is to add support for attaching volumes hosted on a SMB share. The

[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Hyper-V host power actions

2014-07-18 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi everyone, I’d like to propose the following Hyper-V driver feature parity blueprint spec for an expection: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/104630 The Nova Hyper-V driver is currently not implementing host power actions as specified in the driver interface. The actions that can be

[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Keypair support for X509 public key certificates

2014-07-18 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi everyone, I’d like to propose the following Nova blueprint spec for an expection: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/105034 Nova keypairs are mostly used by Linux guests to handle user authentication via SSH public key authentication without incurring in the management and security overhead

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] [Windows] New Windows Disk Image Builder Project

2014-07-07 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Om, Great news! Looking forward for a link to a repo to check it out. Thanks, Alessandro On 07.07.2014, at 11:03, Kumar, Om (Cloud OS RD) om.ku...@hp.commailto:om.ku...@hp.com wrote: Hi All, We have just finished 1st version of Windows Disk Image Builder tool. This tool is written in

[openstack-dev] Heat Windows templates contribution

2014-04-28 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi all, Following up to various conversations during the Icehouse cycle, we’d like to contribute the Heat templates work that we did at Cloudbase, partly available at: https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-heat-templates There’s also a BP for that

Re: [openstack-dev] Heat Windows templates contribution

2014-04-28 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Sysprep is independent from the Heat templates. Generally providing a sysprepped (and generalized) Windows image in Glance is the best solution. The Cloudbase-Init installer offers an option to run it [1] and our automated OpenStack image building scripts do the same [2]. The official Windows

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack-sdk-dotnet] High level architecture and extension doc

2014-04-21 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Wayne, Thanks for sharing this! Alessandro On 22/apr/2014, at 01:41, Foley, Wayne wayne.fo...@hp.commailto:wayne.fo...@hp.com wrote: Hello All, For anyone interested in the Microsoft .NET side of things… The .NET SDK project has a high level architecture document with details on our

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V CI is broken

2014-04-01 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Joe, We have issues with Nova resize that we are troubleshooting. If we don’t find the root cause by today we’ll temporarily skip the resize tests. Thanks, Alessandro On 01 Apr 2014, at 21:27, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.commailto:joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hyper-V CI

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V CI is broken

2014-04-01 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Talking about regressions, there’s one that forced us to move back to VHD disks from VHDX in the Hyper-V CI: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1294682 The patch is up for review but I didn’t get any reply to my latest comments on March 25th. Thanks, Alessandro On 01 Apr 2014, at 21:27,

[openstack-dev] [depfreeze] Updating Pbr dependency to version 0.8

2014-03-31 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Due to an issue in Pbr 0.7 that prevents the installation of any Pbr based package on Windows and due to the recent availability of Pbr 0.8 [1] which includes the fix for this issue, I suggest that we should upgrade the Pbr dependency in the global requirements [2] or at least exclude version

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Dev][Nova][VMWare] Enable live migration with one nova compute

2014-03-31 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 31 Mar 2014, at 18:13, Solly Ross sr...@redhat.com wrote: Building on what John said, I'm a bit wary of introducing semantics into the Conductor's live migration code that are VMWare-specific. The conductor's live-migration code is supposed to be driver-agnostic. IMHO, it would be

Re: [openstack-dev] Disaster Recovery for OpenStack - call for stakeholder

2014-03-13 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Those use cases are very important in enterprise scenarios requirements, but there's an important missing piece in the current OpenStack APIs: support for application consistent backups via Volume Shadow Copy (or other solutions) at the instance level, including differential / incremental

[openstack-dev] [Horizon] Blueprint for password decryption status

2014-03-03 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, By checking the status of the patch at [1] by arezmerita, I noticed that it didn’t get any reviews since the last upload on Jan 31th (after a comprehensive round of reviews started on Dec 10th). During a chat on #openstack-horizon, jpich noticed that the BP [2] was not targetted, so

[openstack-dev] All Hyper-V CI jobs fail to start due to non portable signal handling in Nova guru-meditation report

2014-03-01 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, We have a blocking issue on Hyper-V, the guru-meditation report fails on Hyper-V due to missing signal handling, as a result Nova fails to start. Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1286528 Here’s a sample failed job: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/74060 Direct link to the

Re: [openstack-dev] Win 2008 R2 VMDK upload to glance

2014-02-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi, Did you install the VMWare tools and sysprepped the image before adding it to Glance? Here's how we automate the creation of Windows OpenStack images for KVM, Hyper-V and VMWare (unattended setup, hypervisor drivers, windows updates, Cloudbase-Init and sysprep):

Re: [openstack-dev] HDD-type config-drive and Windows VM

2014-02-22 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Akira, Cloudbase-Init supports ConfigDrive v2 metadata provided as either: - ISO in cdrom drive (any version of Windows starting with XP / 2003) - ISO in raw HDD (starting with Windows 8 / Windows 2012) As you correctly pointed out, Windows does not directly support mounting raw disks

Re: [openstack-dev] HDD-type config-drive and Windows VM

2014-02-22 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Please check also this bug fixed in Havana: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1155842 If you are running Grizzly you’ll need 2013.1.4. On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:16, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi Akira, Cloudbase-Init supports ConfigDrive v2 metadata

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-dev][HEAT][Windows] Does HEAT support provisioning windows cluster

2014-02-21 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, Windows Heat templates are currently supported by using Cloudbase-Init. Here’s the wiki document that I attached some weeks ago to the blueprint referenced in this thread: http://wiki.cloudbase.it/heat-windows There are a few open points that IMO require some discussion. One topic

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Possible Hyper-V false CI failures

2014-02-10 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
' returned exit status 1: ssh: connect to host review.openstack.org port 29418: Network is unreachable fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly error: Could not fetch origin On 10 Feb 2014, at 04:21 , Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi guys, On 10 Feb 2014

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Possible Hyper-V false CI failures

2014-02-09 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, On 10 Feb 2014, at 03:59 , Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 18:17 -0700, Christopher Yeoh wrote: Hi, I think the hyper-v CI system is sometimes failing with this message incorrectly: This change was unable to be automatically merged with the

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Nova CI Infrastructure

2014-02-03 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 02 Feb 2014, at 23:10 , Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: On 02 Feb 2014, at 23:01 , Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: It seems like there were a lot of failing Hyper-V CI jobs for nova yesterday. Is there some systemic problem or did all those patches

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Nova CI Infrastructure

2014-02-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
got from the chat it is not possible as long as the CI is non voting independently from the return status of the single jobs. Alessandro Thanks, Michael On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: On 25 Jan 2014, at 16:51 , Matt Riedemann

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Nova CI Infrastructure

2014-02-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
of this issue and looking into it. The issue happens in devstack before the Hyper-V compute nodes are added and before tempests starts. I’ll post an update as soon as we get it sorted out. Thanks, Alessandro Michael On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Nova CI Infrastructure

2014-01-27 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 25 Jan 2014, at 00:25 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 01/24/2014 04:41 PM, Peter Pouliot wrote: Hello OpenStack Community, I am excited at this opportunity to make the community aware that the Hyper-V CI infrastructure is now up and running. Let’s first start with

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Nova CI Infrastructure

2014-01-27 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 25 Jan 2014, at 16:51 , Matt Riedemann mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 1/24/2014 3:41 PM, Peter Pouliot wrote: Hello OpenStack Community, I am excited at this opportunity to make the community aware that the Hyper-V CI infrastructure is now up and running. Let’s first start

Re: [openstack-dev] [Reminder] - Gate Blocking Bug Day on Monday Jan 26th

2014-01-24 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Being the gate one of those things that we all use (and abuse) everyday whatever project we work on, I wouldn’t sleep well by skipping this call. :-) Myself and my fellow Cloudbasers ociuhandu and gsamfira are going to join in on Monday. We got our small share of “learning the hard way” on

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Blueprint decrypt-and-display-vm-generated-password

2014-01-17 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
+1 Nova's get-password is corrently the only safe way from a security perspective to handle guest passwords. This feature needs to be mirrored in Horizon, otherwise most users will continue to resort to unsafe solutions like the clear text admin_pass due to lack of practical alternatives.

[openstack-dev] NVP patch breaks Neutron install on Windows

2014-01-07 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, This patch breaks “setup.py install” on Windows due to the usage on symbolic links: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64747/ error: can't copy 'etc\neutron\plugins\nicira\nvp.ini': doesn't exist or not a regular file I filed up a bug here:

[openstack-dev] Nova and Neutron Hyper-V patches

2013-12-20 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, We have a couple of bug fix patches that already received a +2 review waiting since some time for a second +2a. Can some core rev please help in getting them reviewed and possibly merged? Nova https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55449/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55975/ Neutron

[openstack-dev] Windows instances with password-less authentication

2013-12-17 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, We got password-less authentication properly working in Windows, implemented and included in Cloudbase-Init. Here’s a blog post explaining how it works: http://www.cloudbase.it/windows-without-passwords-in-openstack/ And the gory details:

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-13 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
18:39 , Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from Alessandro Pilotti's message of 2013-12-13 07:13:01 -0800: Hi guys, This seems to become a pretty long thread with quite a lot of ideas. What do you think about setting up a meeting on IRC to talk about what direction to take?

Re: [openstack-dev] VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player Nova driver

2013-12-03 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 03.12.2013, at 21:20, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/03/2013 04:27 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 07:23:19PM +, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: On 02 Dec 2013, at 04:52 , Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmest...@cisco.com wrote: This is very cool

Re: [openstack-dev] VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player Nova driver

2013-12-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 02 Dec 2013, at 04:52 , Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmest...@cisco.com wrote: On Dec 1, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi all, At Cloudbase we are heavily using VMware Workstation and Fusion for development, demos and PoCs, so we thought

Re: [openstack-dev] VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player Nova driver

2013-12-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Dec 1, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.commailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Hi all, At Cloudbase we are heavily using VMware Workstation and Fusion for development, demos and PoCs, so we thought: why not replacing our automation scripts with a fully

Re: [openstack-dev] VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player Nova driver

2013-12-02 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 02/dic/2013, at 23:47, Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana...@gmail.commailto:vishvana...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.commailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: On 02 Dec 2013, at 20:54 , Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana

[openstack-dev] VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player Nova driver

2013-12-01 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi all, At Cloudbase we are heavily using VMware Workstation and Fusion for development, demos and PoCs, so we thought: why not replacing our automation scripts with a fully functional Nova driver and use OpenStack APIs and Heat for the automation? :-) Here’s the repo for this Nova driver

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 05:48 , Dan Smith d...@danplanet.commailto:d...@danplanet.com wrote: The last thing that OpenStack needs ANY more help with is velocity. I mean, let's be serious - we land WAY more patches in a day than is even close to sane. Thanks for saying this -- it doesn't get said

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 08:45 , Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sean, I'm going to top post because my response is general. I totally agree that we need people that understand the code base and we should encourage new people to be cross-functional. I guess my main issue

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:19 , Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.netmailto:robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 16 October 2013 20:14, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.commailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Drivers are IMO not part of the core of Nova, but completely

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 13:19 , Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.orgmailto:thie...@openstack.org wrote: Sean Dague wrote: The Linux kernel process works for a couple of reasons... 1) the subsystem maintainers have known each other for a solid decade (i.e. 3x the lifespan of the OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
, 2013 at 10:42:45AM +, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: On Oct 16, 2013, at 13:19 , Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.orgmailto:thie...@openstack.org wrote: Sean Dague wrote: The Linux kernel process works for a couple of reasons... 1) the subsystem maintainers have known each other

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-16 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 15:16 , Sean Dague s...@dague.net wrote: On 10/16/2013 01:19 AM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: snip Sean, you got called out in the meeting not because you asked to put a refernce link to the specs which was perfectly reasonable, but because after we did what you asked

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 15, 2013, at 18:14 , Duncan Thomas duncan.tho...@gmail.commailto:duncan.tho...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 October 2013 15:41, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.commailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: Current reviews require: +1 de facto driver X mantainer(s) +2 core

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 15, 2013, at 19:18 , Duncan Thomas duncan.tho...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 October 2013 00:19, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: If you don't like any of the options that this already long thread is providing, I'm absolutely open to discuss any constructive

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 15, 2013, at 19:03 , Duncan Thomas duncan.tho...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 October 2013 20:51, Rochelle.Grober rochelle.gro...@huawei.com wrote: Proposed solution: There have been a couple of solutions proposed. I’m presenting a merged/hybrid solution that may work ·

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
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Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V meeting Minutes

2013-10-15 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 16, 2013, at 02:36 , Sean Dague s...@dague.netmailto:s...@dague.net wrote: On 10/15/2013 04:54 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been following this conversation and weighing the different sides. This is a tricky issue but I think it is important to decouple further and

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-14 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 14.10.2013, at 11:18, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Joe Gordon wrote: [...] This sounds like a very myopic solution to the issue you originally raised, and I don't think it will solve the underlying issues. Taking a step back, you originally raised a concern about how

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-13 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 13, 2013, at 14:54 , Christopher Yeoh cbky...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:30:30 -0700 Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: If the idea is to gate with nova-extra-drivers this could lead to a rather painful process to change the virt driver API. When all the drivers are

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-12 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 12.10.2013, at 20:04, Tim Bell tim.b...@cern.ch wrote: From the user perspective, splitting off the projects seems to be focussing on the ease of commit compared to the final user experience. An 'extras' project without *strong* testing co-ordination with packagers such as SUSE

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-12 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 12.10.2013, at 20:22, Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: From the user perspective, splitting off the projects seems to be focussing on the ease of commit compared to the final user experience. I think what you describe is specifically the desire that originally spawned the thread:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-12 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 13.10.2013, at 01:26, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.commailto:joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Alessandro Pilotti apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.commailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com wrote: On 12.10.2013, at 20:22, Dan Smith d...@danplanet.commailto:d

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-12 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 13.10.2013, at 01:09, Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: 4) Periodically, code from the new project(s) must be merged into Nova. Only Nova core reviewers will have obviously +2a rights here. I propose to do it on scheduled days before every milestone, differentiated per driver to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 14:15 , Sean Dague s...@dague.net wrote: On 10/10/2013 08:43 PM, Tim Smith wrote: snip Again, I don't have any vested interest in this discussion, except that I believe the concept of reviewer karma to be counter to both software quality and openness. In this particular

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 17:17 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.commailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/11/2013 09:02 AM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: OpenStack is organized differently: there are lots of separate projects (Nova, Neutrom, Glance, etc) instead of a single one (which is a good thing

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 18:02 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/11/2013 10:41 AM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: On Oct 11, 2013, at 17:17 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/11/2013 09:02 AM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 18:36 , Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: I think that all drivers that are officially supported must be treated in the same way. Well, we already have multiple classes of support due to the various states of testing that the drivers have. If we are going to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 19:04 , John Griffith john.griff...@solidfire.commailto:john.griff...@solidfire.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Bob Ball bob.b...@citrix.commailto:bob.b...@citrix.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Russell Bryant

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 11, 2013, at 19:29 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.commailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/11/2013 12:04 PM, John Griffith wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Bob Ball bob.b...@citrix.commailto:bob.b...@citrix.com mailto:bob.b...@citrix.com wrote: -Original

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-11 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On 11.10.2013, at 22:58, Rochelle.Grober rochelle.gro...@huawei.commailto:rochelle.gro...@huawei.com wrote: Pardon me for cutting out most of the discussion. I’d like to summarize a bit here and make a proposal. Issues: · Driver and Plugin writers for Nova (and other Core

[openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi all, As the Havana release date is approaching fast, I'm sending this email to sum up the situation for pending bugs and reviews related to the Hyper-V integration in OpenStack. In the past weeks we diligently marked bugs that are related to Havana features with the havana-rc-potential

Re: [openstack-dev] [Hyper-V] Havana status

2013-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Oct 10, 2013, at 23:50 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.commailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/10/2013 02:20 PM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: Hi all, As the Havana release date is approaching fast, I'm sending this email to sum up the situation for pending bugs and reviews related

[openstack-dev] Hyper-V Meeting Minutes

2013-09-10 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi everyone, Today’s Hyper-V meeting minutes. Minutes: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-09-10-16.02.html Minutes (text): http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-09-10-16.02.txt Log:

[openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: hyper-v-remotefx

2013-09-06 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
The RemoteFX feature allows Hyper-V compute nodes to provide GPU acceleration to instances by sharing the host's GPU resources. Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-remotefx This feature provides big improvements for VDI related scenarios based on OpenStack and

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: hyper-v-remotefx

2013-09-06 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Sep 6, 2013, at 14:26 , Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.commailto:berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:56:10AM +, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: The RemoteFX feature allows Hyper-V compute nodes to provide GPU acceleration to instances by sharing the host's GPU resources

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: hyper-v-remotefx

2013-09-06 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Sep 6, 2013, at 15:36 , Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.commailto:berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:22:27PM +, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: On Sep 6, 2013, at 14:26 , Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.commailto:berra...@redhat.commailto:berra...@redhat.com wrote

[openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: hyper-v-rdp-console

2013-09-05 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
This is an FFE request for adding console support for Hyper-V. Unlike most other hypervisors, Hyper-V guest console access is based on RDP instead of VNC. This blueprint adds RDP support in Nova, implemented in a way consistent with the existing VNC and SPICE protocols. It's an essential

Re: [openstack-dev] live-snapshot/cloning of virtual machines

2013-08-31 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Aug 27, 2013, at 18:52 , Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.commailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/27/2013 10:53 AM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: That's IMO a different story: backporting a driver is usually quite trivial as it affects only one service (nova-compute) and one interaction point

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Frustrations with review wait times

2013-08-27 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
On Aug 27, 2013, at 18:40 , Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.commailto:joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.commailto:berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:55:03AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: On 08/27/2013 10:43 AM,

[openstack-dev] Hyper-V Meeting minutes

2013-08-27 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Today's Hyper-V meeting minutes: Minutes: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-08-27-16.06.html Minutes (text): http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-08-27-16.06.txt Log:

[openstack-dev] Hyper-V Meeting minutes

2013-08-20 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Today's Hyper-V meeting minutes: Minutes: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-08-20-16.06.html Minutes (text): http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/hyper_v/2013/hyper_v.2013-08-20-16.06.txt Log:

Re: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack

2013-08-14 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Brian, On the Hyper-V side we have Remote-Fx support in the works for Havana: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-remotefx The code will be ready for review around next week. Thanks, Alessandro On Aug 14, 2013, at 01:07 , Brian Schott

Re: [openstack-dev] Usage of mox through out the Openstack project.

2013-08-03 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Based on an intial run of the Hyper-V Nova tests with pymox (https://github.com/emonty/pymox), only 2 of the tests required some minor adjustements while the rest was running perfectly fine by just replacing the mox import line. If we plan to support pymox in Havana, I'd be happy to send a

Re: [openstack-dev] Hyper-V Meeting Canceled for Today.

2013-07-23 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hy Russell, Yep, we are on track with the development, I have to update the BP status. There's a fairly big one up for review now https://review.openstack.org/#/c/38160/, the other Nova ones are faster to get ready for review. Thanks, Alessandro On Jul 23, 2013, at 19:47 , Russell Bryant

Re: [openstack-dev] Efficiently pin running VMs to physical CPUs automatically

2013-06-21 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
It seems that numad is libvirt specific - is that the case? Hi, Hyper-V 2012 supports NUMA as well. It'd be great to plan an hypervisor independent solution from the start. On 21.06.2013, at 11:13, Bob Ball bob.b...@citrix.com wrote: It seems that numad is libvirt specific - is that the