On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Alvin Starr <al...@netvel.net> wrote:

>
> Looking at my question now it occurs to me I could have written it better.
>
> The question should have been: Is there any chance of extending the
> libvirt plugin to support something other than the limited set of VM
> engines and features that are currently supported.
>
> I am currently using libvirt with Xen  and would love to be able to
> provision a host directly from foreman.
>
> then why dont you use the xen plugin [1]? imho libvirt is not the solution.

Ohad

[1]  https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-xen

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> On 09/06/2016 10:11 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Alvin Starr <al...@netvel.net> wrote:
>
>> libvirt supports KVM/QEMU, Xen, LXC, OpenVZ, UML, VirtualBox, VMware,
>> Hyper-V, PowerVM, Virtuozzo, Bhyve.
>>
>> Foreman's libvirt interface only partly supports KVM.
>>
> libvirt really supports KVM well, all the rest or maintained or not, but
> nearly always on the host level (for example, you could manage vmware esx
> host, but not a vmware vsphere).
>
>> Is there any chance of extending support to other VM engines?
>>
>> we support many via compute resource plugins, see
> <https://theforeman.org/plugins>https://theforeman.org/plugins and the
> supported virt at https://theforeman.org/introduction.html
>
> thanks
> Ohad
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