Re: [PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

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On 18/03/14 12:40, "Tim Mackey"  wrote:

>Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to
>refer
>to any XenAPI based implementation.  With the recent release of Xen
>Project
>4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and
>interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our
>Xen support could be confusing.  In this two part effort I propose that
>CloudStack 4.4 be cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become
>XenServer references, and second that an alternate hypervisor type of
>"XenProject" be introduced for pure Xen which could either support libvirt
>or  libxl (preference for libvirt given the 4.4 work to improve the
>interface and broader support for libvirt in general).
>
>Cross posted to users to for broader comment.
>
>-tim

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

[John Kinsella]

+1

On Mar 18, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Tim Mackey 
mailto:tmac...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer
to any XenAPI based implementation.  With the recent release of Xen Project
4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and
interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our
Xen support could be confusing.  In this two part effort I propose that
CloudStack 4.4 be cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become
XenServer references, and second that an alternate hypervisor type of
"XenProject" be introduced for pure Xen which could either support libvirt
or  libxl (preference for libvirt given the 4.4 work to improve the
interface and broader support for libvirt in general).

Cross posted to users to for broader comment.

-tim

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RE: [PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

[Alex Hitchins]

+1


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Subject: [PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer to 
any XenAPI based implementation.  With the recent release of Xen Project
4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and interest 
in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our Xen support 
could be confusing.  In this two part effort I propose that CloudStack 4.4 be 
cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become XenServer references, and 
second that an alternate hypervisor type of "XenProject" be introduced for pure 
Xen which could either support libvirt or  libxl (preference for libvirt given 
the 4.4 work to improve the interface and broader support for libvirt in 
general).

Cross posted to users to for broader comment.

-tim
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

[Nux!]

On 18.03.2014 16:48, sebgoa wrote:

+1 in general, I am not sure what would be best between libvirt and
libxl though.

but as you know there might be a quick path to reuse the KVM agent
and use libvirt to interact with xenproject


+1 XenProject
+1 Reuse KVM/libvirt agent

Good ideas! :)

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[PROPOSAL] Support pure Xen as a hypervisor

[Tim Mackey]

Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer
to any XenAPI based implementation.  With the recent release of Xen Project
4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and
interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our
Xen support could be confusing.  In this two part effort I propose that
CloudStack 4.4 be cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become
XenServer references, and second that an alternate hypervisor type of
"XenProject" be introduced for pure Xen which could either support libvirt
or  libxl (preference for libvirt given the 4.4 work to improve the
interface and broader support for libvirt in general).

Cross posted to users to for broader comment.

-tim