Dear Szekelyi, You could consider to contribute the new driver to our ecosystem and/or write a post in our blog describing your customization.
Thanks! On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Andreas Ntaflos <d...@pseudoterminal.org> wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2010 00:28:23 Székelyi Szabolcs wrote: >> We're using iSCSI targets directly (one target per vm), automatically >> created and initialized (cloned) from images on vm deploy. Althogh >> the target is based on IET behind gigabit links, it works quite >> well: we haven't done performance benchmarks (yet), but the >> installation time of virtual machines is kinda same than on real >> hardware. > > That sounds interesting and very similar to what we hope to achieve > using OpenNebula and a central storage server (as I've posted a few > hours ago, not realising this thread here is very similar in nature). > >> We developed a custom TM driver for this, because this approach makes >> live migration trickier, since just before live migration the target >> host needs to log in to the iSCSI target hosting the disks of the >> vm, and this is something ONE can't do, so we used libvirt hooks to >> do this -- works like a charm. Libvirt hooks are also good for >> reattaching virtual machines to their virtual networks on live >> migration -- again something ONE doesn't do. > > Would you care to go into a little detail regarding your custom TM > driver? Maybe even post the sources? I'd be very interested in learning > more about your approach to this. > > Thanks! > > Andreas > -- > Andreas Ntaflos > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > -- Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): http://dsa-research.org/llorente DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog http://blog.dsa-research.org OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing: http://www.OpenNebula.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org