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[Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Vmbuilder] VMbuilder Creates Sub-Optimal VMs
> To: "Kenneth Stailey" <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: vmbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 5:22 PM
> 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.

So LP #604335 has been fixed?

> > 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.

Yeah, I should have written "branch" not "fork", sorry about that.

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> Soren Hansen
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>