Hey,
I've recently pushed rbovirt a patch containing the support for working with
the oVirt user-level API.
The difference is that the user-level API will show you only user objects (VMs,
templates, disks, etc...), whereas the admin one will show you everything.
Another difference is that currently rbovirt filters objects according to the
data-center which they are part of, but the User-level API doesn't support this
filtering.
I would like the configuration of it to be somewhere in /etc (more standard
from packaging point of view, rather than from a GEM configuration one).
For now I guess we can just add the "USER_LEVEL_API=true/false" option in the
config/driver/rhevm.yaml,
but are there any plans in the future to support provider-specific options
somewhere in /etc? (like the general /etc/sysconfig/deltacloud-core
configuration file)
Some notes:
1. Once USER_LEVEL_API = true, even if the API_PROVIDER will contain a
Data-Center ID, it will be ignored by the oVirt engine.
2. The user-level API is supported in oVirt from version 3.1.0-3, but
unfortunately we currently don't support getting the RPM version through the
API. So, we would need to have some release note about that.
3. I guess we should keep the default to USER_LEVEL_API = false (at least for
now), in order not to break behaviour, although in the future I believe working
with the User Level API will be the common approach.
Technical implementation details:
* Working with the User-Level API can be done easily be passing "true" as the
last parameter to the ovirt client:
OVIRT::Client.new(credentials.user, credentials.password, url,
datacenter, true)
(default value is false)
Any thoughts/ideas about that?
How can we push this forward?
Thank you,
Oved
