[OmniOS-discuss] kvm / zones

[Bryan Horstmann-Allen]

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| On 2012-10-31 16:53:28, Paul B. Henson wrote:
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> Cool :), although I must confess I'm not completely clear on what you're 
> working on. Implementing the joyent zone brand under omnios? Or something 
> else related to running kvm in zones?

It's actually not the joyent brand, but the kvm brand. The joyent brand is a
modified standard "sparse" zones brand, which is (I think) very unlikely to
work within the context of IPS (at least within the zones themselves!)

The kvm brand does some work with networking, but not too much. It just
requires a bit of thought in how you handle getting passed VNICs vs not, and so
forth. I just haven't had much time to look at it since an initial run at
Surge.

> I'm not horribly familiar with either vmadm or libvirt, and perhaps this 
> would be a better question for the SmartOS mailing list, but given they are 
> both intended to ease/automate management of virtual machines, I wonder how 
> they compare feature-wise... I assume libvirt doesn't know much about 
> zones/vnics etc out-of-the-box.

I think vmadm/imgadm are definitely the way to go, especially once OmniOS has
its own version of the kvm brand. Unless Eric decides that shipping node in
base is something he really wants to do, they'll likely have to be installed as
packages, though. :-)

Cheers.
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