Re: CKRM port

[Diwaker Gupta <diwakergupta@gmail.com>]

Sorry, forgot to CC to the list.


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From: Diwaker Gupta <diwakergupta@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:13:13 -0700
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] CKRM port
To: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>


> It would be kinda nice to have control over all the VMs
> integrated into the same name space as the dom0 kernel's CKRM,
> but its not really necessary. I'd rather have something in a
> similar style done by a daemon in user space, enabling control
> over all the VMs in a particular cluster rather than just the
> local machine. The intention would be to provide a single
> management interface for a whole cluster, with a pool of VMs
> running over it. Live migration gives you a good deal of
> transparency as regards moving VMs between physical nodes.

I was, in fact, investigating a CKRM port in this regard. The idea, as
you said, would be to have a live pool of VMs. Given the transparencey
of migration, and the ease of dynamic management of VMs, we'd like to
"virtualize" the whole cluster so that multiple users can have their
own "virtual clusters" for their experiments. But we want to be able
to really fine tune the allocation and management of various
resources. CKRM looks to be a good first step, though I believe it can
be done using existing Xen features (like the atropos scheduler)
--
Diwaker Gupta
http://resolute.ucsd.edu/diwaker


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