[libvirt] [PATCH RFC] Remove the Open Nebula driver

[Laine Stump]

On 03/22/2011 12:23 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The Open Nebula driver has been unmaintained since it was first
> introduced. The only commits have been for tree-wide cleanups.
> It also has a major design flaw, in that it only knows about guests
> that it has created itself, which makes it of very limited use.
>
> Discussions wrt evolution of the VMWare ESX driver, concluded that
> it should limit itself to single-node ESX operation and not try to
> manage the multi-node architecture of VirtualCenter. Open Nebula
> is a cluster like Virtual Center, not a single node system, so
> reasoning applies.
>
> The DeltaCloud project includes an Open Nebula driver and is a much
> better fit architecturally, since it is explicitly targetting the
> distributed multihost cluster scenario.
>
> Thus this patch deletes the libvirt Open Nebula driver with the
> recommendation that people use DeltaCloud for managing it instead.

I knew nothing about Open Nebula, so I went searching. I noticed the 
following on its about page:

*"User Interfaces*: Unix-like command line and libvirt interface for the 
management of the cloud infrastructure"

(http://opennebula.org/documentation:features)

Since they're claiming the libvirt driver as a feature, they will 
probably have something to say about this removal. At the very least 
they'll want to point to the DeltaCloud driver instead of libvirt.