[libvirt] [PATCH] Power Hypervisor Support for libvirt - minimum set of features

[Eduardo Otubo]

Hello all,

This is the last version of this enormous PATCH. All minor bugs are
fixed, and the minimal set of features are implemented. Any comments are
alwayes welcome.

[]'s

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:55 -0300, Eduardo Otubo wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> This is the life cycle operations I've been working on these days.
> Fortunately this is a smaller and  more punctual diff. :)
> 
> Any comment is always welcome.
> []'s
> 
> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:57 -0300, Eduardo Otubo wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > This is the initial patch for the driver for IBM Power Hypervisors. The
> > minimum set of features are now implemented: list, list --all and
> > dumpxml. Here is the Changeset since last PATCH I sent:
> > 
> > * The URI has changed to: phyp://user@[hmc|ivm]/managed_system. If the
> > system is a HMC+VIOS based, only an HMC authentication will be required.
> > Commands will be sent to VIOS trough HMC command line. And if the system
> > is an IVM based, then just provide the username and password for IVM.
> > 
> > * Since the Power Hypervisor has no information about UUID's, I built a
> > little database (uuid_db) to store and associate LPAR ID's with UUID
> > randomly generated by the API.
> > 
> > * The command dumpxml is implemented, but there are some informations
> > missing. Fetching informations like fstab, os type, uptime, IP addr and
> > so on, will only be available in a future versions of the HMC system.
> > 
> > * The TODO list is now set to implement life cycle functions.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > []'s
> > 

[]'s

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Eduardo Otubo
Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center
IBM Systems & Technology Group
Mobile: +55 19 8135 0885 
otubo at linux.vnet.ibm.com
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