Re: The New KVM Provisioning module

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Xianqing, Right I think the snapshot method might be the best way to go. It would allow a quick way to clone with doing a full copy. Aaron On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Xianqing Yu yu267155...@hotmail.com wrote: Aaron, Libvirt currently don't have support for non-persistent disk. I sent

Re: The New KVM Provisioning module

2011-08-16 Thread Xianqing Yu
Aaron, Right, but this is only for KVM API, in qemu-kvm description, it said -snapshot write to temporary files instead of disk image files. Right now, Libvirt don't support that. If we using libvirt API in kvm provisioning module, we couldn't make non-persistent disk work until libvirt

VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Coburn
Hello, In our VCL implementation at Amherst College, we are using a VMware cluster for our virtual machine infrastructure. Because we wanted to allow VMs to float between physical hosts according to how VMware prefers to balance resource use (VMware calls this distributed resource scheduling),

Re: The New KVM Provisioning module

2011-08-16 Thread Xianqing Yu
OK. Let's use both APIs. I have to clarify one thing. Although qemu-kvm use -snapshot option. But it is not the snapshot you are thinking about. You don't have to create any snapshot for the images. I only need to add this option to command line. For example, if I want one VM boot on the image

Re: The New KVM Provisioning module

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Peeler
Nevermind. I answer my own question. virt-install is using qemu-kvm under the covers. Aaron On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Aaron Peeler aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu wrote: I was looking at qemu-img command on the snapshots. I've found qemu-kvm command, it wasn't in my default PATH. Looking at

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Aaron, Thanks. This is great, definitely needed a method on provisioning on vcenter. I think Andy will followup as soon as he can on this. He has the most knowledge of the current committers on the VMware module framework. Aaron On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Aaron Coburn