On 03/20/2013 09:43 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Itzik Brown" <itz...@mellanox.com>
To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <dan...@redhat.com>, "Assaf Muller" <amul...@redhat.com>, "Yair
Zaslavsky"
<yzasl...@redhat.com>, "Eldan Hildesheim" <ehild...@redhat.com>,
iz...@mellanox.com
Cc: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org, a...@ovirt.org, "Irena Berezovsky"
<ire...@mellanox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:17:08 AM
Subject: RE: [vdsm] Per device custom properties
Hi,
I think that this feature is a good start for enabling vendor
specific hints which apply to VM Network/Disk devices.
There is a need to add migration hooks to the list.
Itzik
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Kenigsberg [mailto:dan...@redhat.com]
Sent: יום ג 19 מרץ 2013 17:12
To: Assaf Muller; Yair Zaslavsky; Eldan Hildesheim;
iz...@mellanox.com
Cc: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org; a...@ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [vdsm] Per device custom properties
adding arch@ovirt, as this feature is cross sub-project
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:50:20AM -0400, Assaf Muller wrote:
Hi all,
Right now we have the ability to define VM-wide properties that may
be
used by hooks.
It is time we have the same functionality on a device basis:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Device_Custom_Properties
This feature page needs some love and attention.
* I received a private communication about the suggested GUI: there
should not be an independent vNIC action called "custom Properties"
-
the dialog for editing per-vNIC custom properties should be part of
defining a new vNIC or editting an existing one. I believe Eldan
(our
GUI designer) concurs.
* http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Device_Custom_Properties#Engine is
rather lacking concrete details. Yair, could you improve it, as
well
as the completely empty REST section?
I would prefer Michael Pasternak handles REST-API.
Regarding the rest of the engine side- I'll assist.
I would consult with Eli on this, as he was/is the feature owner of VM devices.
For example: If the VM has 2 disks called disk1 and disk2, and two
NICs called nic1 and nic2, and the admin (From the engine) added a
custom property qos: 0.5 for nic1 and a custom property defrag:
None
for disk2. When the VM is started we'll run a hook for nic1 with
its
XML and qos: 0.5 added as an environment variable, and a hook for
disk2 with its XML and defrag: None.
When a device is hot plugged and it has custom properties we'll run
that hook as well.
Implementation-wise, hot plug/unplug for disks and NICs is dead
simple
- vmCreate is more problematic:
If the user set a custom property called 'qos: 0.8' for nic3, I'd
want
it exposed as an environment variable called 'qos' for hot plug nic
hooks, but for vmCreate I'd like to prefix the nic's alias.
However,
when vmCreate is called we don't have the aliases for NICs and
disks.
The proposed solution is to create a new hook point called
something
like: 'before_device_creation' that will be called before vmCreate.
We'll then call that hook specifically for devices that contains
custom properties, as described in the second paragraph of this
mail.
I would love to hear smarter ideas before I move forward. Thanks!
I find it quite intuitive, but I'd rather hear if it feats Izik's use
case.
Dan.
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one point for consideration is we may want to make custom properties
"managed entities" in the future, rather than 'blobs'. this will
especially be important to allow managing permissions on them.
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