Re: [et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] Add vdisk support

[John Levon <levon movementarian org>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:11:39PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> > Add vdisk support
> > 
> > Add support for the vdisk format used in Solaris.
> 
> What exactly  is vdisk ?  Is this the ZFS based logical volume
> management ?

vdisk is basically our tap implementation and disk management tool. (So
nothing to do with zfs.)

> The patch looks reasonable to  me anyway, though I'd like to make a note
> to get these vdisk operations supported in libvirt storage APIs, since
> we'd like to remove all this disk munging code from virtinst APIs and
> replace it with libvirt storage APIs.

Agreed. This was a forward port from old code so we haven't had a chance
to look at the storage APIs at all yet.

regards
john