[Ovirt-devel] QCOW2 image support?

[Daire Byrne]

Cheers for the info. I like how oVirt is shaping up and will keep a close eye
on your progress. When we it has a few more of our required features I will 
endeavour to contribute.

Regards,

Daire

----- "Hugh O. Brock" <hbrock at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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...)