[OmniOS-discuss] kvm / zones

[Theo Schlossnagle]

node is actually quite small and I'm hopeful that the product wil
stabilize soon.  I've no objections to including node in the base
install if there is a very valuable tool that requires it.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen
<bdha at mirrorshades.net> wrote:
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | On 2012-10-31 16:53:28, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> |
>> 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.
> --
> bdha
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