vmbuilder team mailing list archive

[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/23 Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Fundamentally VMbuilder is a good idea however it lacks support for certain KVM features.  Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of these being missing:
>
> 1. Support for grub2

Is in the works.

> 2. Support for LVM encapsulation – Ubuntu versions starting with 9.10 have grub2 and that can boot from a totally LVM-encapsulated disk with no /boot file system (only a /boot directory in the root LV in the root VG.)  This is also a work-around for LP #604335 (see comment #12)

I don't have any plans in this area. There's plenty of other important
things to fix first.

> 3. Support for virtio disk. VMbuilder builds VMs with emulated SCSI disks which are slower than virtio disks.  I have real-world customers who refuse to use KVM guests due to I/O performance issues.

There's no particular reason why this isn't supported.

> Are there plans to support these features or should I fork and do the coding myself?

You don't need to fork a project just to work on it. Patches are
happily accepted.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Developer    http://www.ubuntu.com/
OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/