Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-07 Thread Thierry Carrez
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: FWIW, libvirt has pretty reasonable abilities to manage VMWare ESX servers, and some very basic support for Hyper-V. It would be interesting to see if the OpenStack libvirt driver can be developed to support these targets too. If the libvirt VMWare/HyperV drivers are

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:52:17AM +, Armando Migliaccio wrote: To the best of my knowledge, the ESXi support is up to date. There may be bugs, but which virt driver is perfect ;)? Sateesh may know more, because he is the main contributor/maintainer from Citrix. However, as Vish

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-06 Thread Nathanael Burton
+1!! On Feb 6, 2012 5:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:52:17AM +, Armando Migliaccio wrote: To the best of my knowledge, the ESXi support is up to date. There may be bugs, but which virt driver is perfect ;)? Sateesh may know more,

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-03 Thread Thierry Carrez
Ewan Mellor wrote: There's certainly no need to remove it. It's clearly not tier 1 like XenServer and KVM, but it's in decent enough shape. Good to hear :) -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-02 Thread Thierry Carrez
Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: We don't need support from microsoft specifically. What we need is one or more companies committed to: a) actually using the Hyper-V driver b) writing tests and fakes so that the existing functionality doesn't break c) providing test hardware and jenkins

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-02 Thread Armando Migliaccio
@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: 02 February 2012 08:53 To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting Thierry Carrez wrote: Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-02 Thread Armando Migliaccio
@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack- bounces+armando.migliaccio=eu.citrix@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Armando Migliaccio Sent: 02 February 2012 11:52 To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting To the best of my

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-02 Thread Ewan Mellor
: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting Thierry Carrez wrote: Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code from the Essex tree. Here are my suggestions for removal: - Ajaxterm

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-02 Thread Peter J. Pouliot
To: Wayne Walls Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting   We use Ubuntu KVM + Libivrt and have helped several clients build private clouds and all of them are using Windows guests (Win 2003, Win 2008, Win 7). For all

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-01 Thread Rangababu Chakravarthula
+sandy.walsh=rackspace@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Thierry Carrez [thie...@openstack.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-01 Thread Sriram Subramanian
To: Wayne Walls Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting We use Ubuntu KVM + Libivrt and have helped several clients build private clouds and all of them are using Windows guests (Win 2003, Win 2008, Win 7). For all the issues that we had with windows

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-02-01 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
, 2012 6:17 AM To: Wayne Walls Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting We use Ubuntu KVM + Libivrt and have helped several clients build private clouds and all of them are using Windows guests (Win 2003, Win 2008, Win 7). For all

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-30 Thread Ewan Mellor
-Original Message- From: Thomas Goirand [mailto:tho...@goirand.fr] Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:17 AM To: Anne Gentle Cc: Ewan Mellor; Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting On 01/29/2012 12:04 PM, Ewan Mellor

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Still
On 28/01/12 02:23, Thierry Carrez wrote: Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code from the Essex tree. Here are my suggestions for removal: - Hyper-V support (known broken and

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-29 Thread Cole Robinson
On 01/28/2012 04:32 PM, Wayne Walls wrote: snip - To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a Windows guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ? I think this is a much harder question to answer, as in the past (http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp) there has been a

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-29 Thread Anne Gentle
-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Sandy Walsh Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45 To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed Scheduler. The new

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/29/2012 12:04 PM, Ewan Mellor wrote: That includes Citrix XenServer, Red Hat RHEL and RHEV, Oracle VM, Novell SLES, and VMware ESX. Basically the answer is that you need a commercial hypervisor (because SVVP certification takes weeks to do, and months up front to get the drivers and

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-28 Thread Tim Bell
...@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Sandy Walsh Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45 To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed Scheduler. The new Zones infrastructure

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-28 Thread Wayne Walls
To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed Scheduler. The new Zones infrastructure is an optional component. -S From: openstack

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-28 Thread Ken Pepple
On Jan 28, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Tim Bell wrote: - What hypervisors are being used for running Windows guests (both Windows 7 and Windows Server) on top of OpenStack ? - To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a Windows guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ? - Are

[Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-27 Thread Thierry Carrez
Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code from the Essex tree. Here are my suggestions for removal: - Ajaxterm (unmaintained, security issues, replaced by VNC console) - Hyper-V support

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting

2012-01-27 Thread Sandy Walsh
@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Thierry Carrez [thie...@openstack.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known