Re: [Xen-devel] GSoC 2012 project brainstorming

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell-Sxgqhf6Nn4DQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 17:55 +0000, Dave Scott wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote: 
> > I've just added a proposal for "xl to xapi offline VM migration
> > utility". I know the xl side well and I'm reasonably familiar with
> > XenAPI etc but it would be really useful to have a co-/backup-mentor
> > from the xen-api@ side of things.
> 
> I could be a co-/backup-mentor for that.

Excellent, thanks!

> I've been busy recently moving all the domain management parts of xapi
> into a separate daemon, which later can be libxl'ed up. For testing
> (and for fun) I've made it understand some of xm/xl config file syntax eg

Interesting. Pure ocaml I presume?

> [root@st20 ~]# xn export-metadata-xm win7 win7.xm

xn? We're going to run out of letters soon ;-)

Do you handle import as well as export? One of the more interesting use
cases (I think) is handling folks who want to migrate from an xm/xl
based setup to a xapi setup (e.g. by installing Kronos on their existing
Debian system). That's was the primary aim of the proposed project.

> [root@st20 ~]# cat win7.xm 
> name='win7'
> builder='hvmloader'
> boot='dc'
> vcpus=1
> memory=2048
> disk=[ 'sm:7af570d8-f8c5-4103-ac1d-969fe28bfc11,hda,w', 'sm:137c8a61-113c-ab46-20fa-5c0574eaff77,hdb:cdrom,r' ]

Half-assed wondering -- I wonder if sm: (or script=sm or similar)
support could work in xl...

> vif=[  ]
> pci=[  ]
> pci_msitranslate=1
> pci_power_mgmt=0
> # transient=true
> 
> Another goal of the refactoring is to allow xapi to co-exist with domains
> created by someone else (e.g. xl/libxl). This should allow a migration to
> be done piecemeal, one VM at a time on the same host.

The brainstoming list below includes "make xapi use libxl". Is this (or
a subset of this) the sort of thing which could be done by a GSoC
student?

I suppose it is only fair that I offer to be co-/backup-mentor to a main
mentor from the xapi side of things for such a project...

Ian.


> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> > 
> > Ian.
> > 
> > > TOOLS
> > > -----
> > > - pv grub2
> > > - xapi support in libvirt
> > > - make xapi use libxl
> > > - compile xapi on ARM
> > > - OpenXenManager
> > > - driver domains
> > > - PV dbus
> > > - HA daemon for Remus
> > > - HA daemon for XCP
> > >
> > > PERF
> > > ----
> > > - Oprofile
> > > - Linux perf tools in guest
> > >
> > > HYPERVISOR
> > > ----------
> > > - insmod Xen
> > > - event channel limits
> > > - NUMA
> > >
> > > MEMORY
> > > ------
> > > - disk based memory sharing
> > > - memory scanner
> > > - paging replacing PoD
> > > - VM Fork
> > > - Copy on read (past VDI boot)
> > >
> > >
> > > IO
> > > --
> > > - PV OpenGL/Gallium
> > > - PV USB
> > > - PV USB3
> > > - PV SCSI
> > > - PVFB in Xorg
> > > - Infiniband
> > >
> > >
> > > STORAGE
> > > -------
> > > - gluster/ceph plugins
> > >
> > >
> > > QEMU
> > > ----
> > > - BSD libc
> > > - upstream QEMU stubdoms
> > >
> > >
> > > TESTS
> > > -----
> > > - better web reporting
> > > - more tests
> > > - upstream linux
> > >
> > >
> > > DISTROS
> > > -------
> > > - packaging stubdoms
> > > - xen on centos6
> > > - driver domains
> > > - figure out the VM format issue
> > > - XSM in distros
> > >
> > >
> > >
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