[Libvir] OpenVZ XML format and VPS properties get/set interface [long]

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jul 23 10:55:19 UTC 2007


Shuveb Hussain wrote:
> One of the main reasons many people(especially hosting providers) use
> OpenVZ is since it can be used to provide service level agreements.
> There must be a way to set/get various VPS parameters from libvirt. I
> understand concerns about driver specific code in libvirt based clients
> like virt-manager. The capabilities paradigm will not fit here, since
> this is simply about various properties of the VE/domain, not the
> hardware or the VM capabilities. Please correct me, if I am wrong. So,
> how to we do it?

Is the current virDomainGetSchedulerType /
virDomainGetSchedulerParameters / virDomainSetSchedulerParameters API 
sufficient to express all (or at least most) of what OpenVZ requires? 
If not, could it be plausibly extended, or is another API needed?

Rich.




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