On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:15:17AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> moving it to
ovirt.org rathre than fedora does highlight the
> independent nature of VDSM rather than being a Fedora or Red Hat
> only project.
Only to a small degree. Moving a mailing list might impact the first
impressions, but far more important than that, is whether the code
actually works on non-Fedora/RHEL platforms. In other words, ff you
can demonstrate the code is portable & works, the mailing list hosting
location will just become a minor curiosity.
So, IMHO, the most significant thing that would demonstrate the independent
nature of VDSM, would be for someone to actually do the work get it running
on a Debian host and make a point that this is a targetted platform for
releases.
I completely agree with this.
There are currently some Fedora-isms in the code that will prevent
this,
the biggest one I know of being the host network interface setup. This is
one we've been preparing to deal with for a while, by adding transactional
network change support to libvirt's host networking API. With this now in
place, and netcf ported to Debian, moving VDSM to use libvirt's network
API would be a significant step forward in portability to non-Fedora OS.
Hmm, interesting. I am going to have to play around with this now. Thanks for
pointing it out.
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Adam Litke <agl(a)us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center