[Ovirt-devel] QCOW2 image support?

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:02:44PM -0500, Perry Myers wrote:
> Daire Byrne wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Okay, thanks. Maybe the press release is talking more about the  
>> Qumranet solutions that were acquired. Are there plans to give oVirt  
>> the ability to schedule and migrate machines based on load etc. or will 
>> this be managed by a separate system (via libvirt)? Is oVirt only
>> supposed to be used for used the initial provisioning?
>
> There are plans to provide migration based on load in oVirt.  I don't  
> think that'll be part of core libvirt, but it will be part of oVirt.  
> oVirt is not just for initial provisioning.  It's about managing the 
> guest through it's entire lifecycle, monitoring it, tracking state and  
> eventually neat things like chargeback.  Hugh is heading up this effort,  
> so I'll let him elaborate :)

oVirt server, as part of the cloud management bits we are now building
into it, will be able to automatically migrate machines to guarantee
SLA (for example). I wouldn't expect to see that feature before ~6
months from now however (although patches are, as always, welcome...)

Take care,
--Hugh