[libvirt] New Libvirt Implementation - OpenNebula

[Ruben S. Montero]

Dear all,
        You may find of interest a new implementation of the libvirt 
virtualization API. This new implementation adds support to OpenNebula, a 
distributed VM manager system. The implementation of libvirt on top of a 
distributed VM manager, like OpenNebula, provides an abstraction of a whole 
cluster of resources (each one with its hypervisor). In this way,  you can use 
any libvirt tool (e.g. virsh, virt-manager) and XML domain descriptions at a 
distributed level. 

For example, you may create a new domain with 'virsh create', then OpenNebula 
will look for a suitable resource, transfer the VM images and boot your VM 
using any of the supported hypervisors. The distributed management is 
completely transparent to the libvirt application. This is, a whole cluster 
can be managed as any other libvirt node.

The current implementation is targeted for libvirt 0.4.4, and includes a patch 
to the libvirt source tree (mainly to modify the autotools files), and a 
libvirt driver.

More information and download instructions can be found at:

* http://trac.opennebula.org/wiki/LibvirtOpenNebula
* http://www.opennebula.org


Cheers

Ruben
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 Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
 Associate Professor
 Distributed System Architecture Group (http://dsa-research.org)

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 OpenNEbula, http://www.opennebula.org
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