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[Nathanael Burton <nathanael.i.burton@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1!!
On Feb 6, 2012 5:38 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:52:17AM +0000, Armando Migliaccio wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, the ESXi support is up to date. There may
> be bugs, but which virt driver is perfect ;)?
> >
> > Sateesh may know more, because he is the main contributor/maintainer
> from Citrix.
> >
> > However, as Vish pointed out in a previous email, any driver is doomed
> to rot if:
> >
> > a) no one is deploying OpenStack using the specific driver, thus
> unveiling potential problems;
> > b) a pool of developers (not necessarily the first committer) keep the
> code up to date, increase functionality and test coverage (both unit and
> functional);
> >
> > Clearly both xenapi and libvirt are actively developed and deployed. How
> about vmwareapi? Anyone?
> >
> > Let's make sure that vmwareapi is not going to be the next one to bite
> the dust.
>
> FWIW, libvirt has pretty reasonable abilities to manage VMWare ESX servers,
> and some very basic support for Hyper-V. It would be interesting to see if
> the OpenStack libvirt driver can be developed to support these targets too.
> If the libvirt VMWare/HyperV drivers are not currently good enough for
> OpenStack's needs, IMHO, it would be worth putting effort into improving
> libvirt. It seems like a needless duplicated effort to have the libvirt
> & OpenStack communities both trying to write hypervisor portability
> layers.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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