--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Soren Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Soren Hansen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Vmbuilder] VMbuilder Creates Sub-Optimal VMs > To: "Kenneth Stailey" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 5:22 PM > 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. So LP #604335 has been fixed? > > 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. Yeah, I should have written "branch" not "fork", sorry about that. > -- > 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
