[Ovirt-devel] virtio available ?

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:12:29PM +0400, dima vasiletc wrote:
> Hello.
> Virtio not sipported on current ovirt.
> Why?
> I want try to add this feature. Interesting what problems will appear.
> 
This is very high on our list. The problem is that there is a whole set
of VM metadata -- acpi & apic yes/no, virtio-capable, 32- or 64-bit
required -- that should rightly be stored in an independent spot
somewhere so we can refer to it when creating a VM. This way we will
know if the user wants to install for example a RHEL 5 guest, acpi
should be off (IIRC), but for a Windows Server 2003 guest it must be on.

I expect to have a patch for such a lookup system in place next week,
after which it will be pretty trivial to add a "VM type" field to the
create dialog and add some code to taskomatic to make the appropriate
alterations in the guest XML.

In the meantime, if you know you're always going to want virtio turned
on, you could pretty easily hack taskomatic to just do that -- but we
couldn't take that upstream of course.

Thanks for your interest,
--Hugh