[libvirt] Thoughts on adding a domain type of jvm

Scott Stark sstark at redhat.com
Sat Feb 9 00:18:37 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Blake" <eblake at redhat.com>
To: "Scott Stark" <sstark at redhat.com>
Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 12:21:17 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Thoughts on adding a domain type of jvm

On 02/08/2013 12:20 PM, Scott Stark wrote:

> [any way you can convince your mailer to wrap long lines?]

Not sure, it is our Red Hat zimbra web client that I'm using.

> > I'm working with a java vm vendor that is developing a multi-tenancy jvm and is trying to leverage the libvirt framework for the domain configuration. Right now the > java language binding leverages the libvirt c library for parsing the domain.xml file. What are the thoughts on adding a 'jvm' domain type?
> 
> You mean, adding a a src/jvm/jvm_driver.c backend that supports a
> jvm:/// URI for connecting to your vms?  Seems reasonable; we've added
> support for other hypervisor technologies in the past.

Yes.

> > 
> > I believe there would need to be a jvm specific section in a separate namespace similar to the qemucmdline section.

> You may want to look at the patches for adding a URI for parallels://
> (commit cafc26ff, and lots of more recent commits with a prefix of
> 'parallels:') or hyperv:// (commit 4d6e6f4 and more recent commits with
> a prefix of 'hyperv:') for inspiration on what it would take to
> contribute your patch.

Ok, will do.
Thanks




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