Hi Dimitris,

Am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013 03:25:35 UTC+2 schrieb Dimitris Aragiorgis:
 

> since device UUIDs have been merged upstream, I think we could 
> reheat the conversation about hotplug. This is the updated 
>
 
once again I want to comment on the hotplug feature, which I like to have 
in ganeti too.

First there are things that can be "hotpluged", which the current design 
doesn't mention:
- NIC cable (sometimes requested on ganeti-user)
- CD-ROM images
- perhaps CPU (with qemu 1.5 release from yesterday)

Second, for an unknown reason, I must use kvm-0.15 on SLES11, which has 
device hotpluging backported. It would be nice to detect the hotplug 
feature by parsing some monitor command like "help" etc.

Third concerns growing a disk. From my storage point of view, this is the 
most ideal workflow adding storage to a VM. Mostly considering fully 
virtualized SAN with shared-block disk template. Think of extra zoning/ACL, 
mutlipathing, grouping, I/O monitoring for every disk. And a layering 
violation with LVM inside the VM: the volume manager is the SAN.

And last but not least security. the handling of kvm:chroot=true and 
kvm:security_model=pool should be addressed sooner then later. I wouldn't 
believe, that all your synnefo VMs run as root? In issue 263 I solved 
disk-hotpluging with chroot and dropped privileges (works for me).

Thanks for listening. Sascha.

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