2010/11/23 Kenneth Stailey <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Fundamentally VMbuilder is a good idea however it lacks support for certain > KVM features. Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of these being > missing: > > 1. Support for grub2
Is in the works. > 2. Support for LVM encapsulation – Ubuntu versions starting with 9.10 have > grub2 and that can boot from a totally LVM-encapsulated disk with no /boot > file system (only a /boot directory in the root LV in the root VG.) This is > also a work-around for LP #604335 (see comment #12) I don't have any plans in this area. There's plenty of other important things to fix first. > 3. Support for virtio disk. VMbuilder builds VMs with emulated SCSI disks > which are slower than virtio disks. I have real-world customers who refuse > to use KVM guests due to I/O performance issues. There's no particular reason why this isn't supported. > Are there plans to support these features or should I fork and do the coding > myself? You don't need to fork a project just to work on it. Patches are happily accepted. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vmbuilder Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vmbuilder More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
