[libvirt-users] About IBM PowerVM hypervisor support

[Dennis Chen]

On 07/04/2012 03:26 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2012/7/4 Dennis Chen<dennis.chen at tnsoft.com.cn>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that libvirt support the following hypervisors currently:
>>
>> The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor
>> The Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
>> The LXC Linux container system
>> The OpenVZ Linux container system
>> The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
>> The VirtualBox hypervisor
>> The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
>> The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors
>> The Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
>>
>> "the goal of libvirt: to provide a common and stable layer sufficient to
>> securely manage domains on a node, possibly remote."
>>
>> My question is, does redhat's libvirt team have the plan to support IBM
>> PowerVM hypervisor? If the answer is NO, what's the reason to make the
>> support for IBM PowerVM hypervisor doesn't make sense...
> Well, libvirt aleady has support for the 'IBM Power Hypervisor' for a
> while now, called 'phyp' internally in the codebase, see
>
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tree;f=src/phyp
>
> It's just lacking documentation and for some unknown reason is not
> mentioned on the homepage. We should fix this.
>
Adding Eduardo who is the author of the phyp driver...

Eduardo, is the libvirtd daemon necessary for libvirt-based to manage 
the PowerVM node? I guess so,
if it's the case, then what's the environment in the PowerVM-based node 
to run the libvirtd daemon, is it vios?

BRs,
Dennis