[openstack-dev] [Fuel][UX] Throw KVM\QEMU and leave Libvirt on Wizard

Sheena Gregson sgregson at mirantis.com
Mon Dec 21 15:53:00 UTC 2015


+1 as well – this makes intuitive sense to me as a user, we should include
something in the mouseover text explaining that KVM acceleration will be
used if possible based on hardware capabilities



*From:* Vladimir Kuklin [mailto:vkuklin at mirantis.com]
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+1 to Andrey



On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Andrey Danin <adanin at mirantis.com> wrote:

I suggest to call this item in the Wizard as "QEMU-KVM" with the following
description:
"Select this option if you want to use QEMU as a hypervisor with capability
of KVM acceleration."



On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Igor Kalnitsky <ikalnitsky at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Qemu is not a hypervisor This will be even more confusing.

It looks like hypervisor much more than libvirt. Moreover, according
to Wikipedia [1] (don't blame me guys) Qemu is Type-2 hypervisor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

> Today, when a user selects KVM, Fuel attempts to use KVM acceleration and
> defaults to QEMU in the case that KVM acceleration is not possible.

Sheena, are you sure it works this way? Some time ago we didn't
support this. However, I fully support this idea and believe this is
the way to go. In this case the hypervisor entry could be called
something like  "Qemu (+ KVM if available)".



On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Sheena Gregson <sgregson at mirantis.com>
wrote:
> We should collapse this into one entry - I don't have any preference on
> the naming convention, but as Fuel checks to see whether the hardware is
> capable of performing KVM acceleration, there's no reason to continue
> giving a selection to the user regarding KVM.
>
> Today, when a user selects KVM, Fuel attempts to use KVM acceleration and
> defaults to QEMU in the case that KVM acceleration is not possible.  We
> should keep this behavior and make the entry a single KVM/QEMU selection
> to eliminate the false perception of choice (and the ability for users to
> select the incorrect option).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ball [mailto:bob.ball at citrix.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 7:32 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel][UX] Throw KVM\QEMU and leave Libvirt
> on Wizard
>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Igor Kalnitsky
>> <ikalnitsky at mirantis.com>
>> wrote:
>> > What about hypervisor "Qemu", and checkbox option on Settings tab -
>> > "Use KVM extension"?
>> Qemu is not a hypervisor This will be even more confusing.
>> I think "Libvirt" + some tooltip which says "Qemu and KVM" will be ok.
>
> Libvirt isn't a hypervisor either.  Note that Xen, Virtuozzo CT, Virtuozzo
> VM, LXC and KVM on ppc64 and s390x are all valid hypervisors to use with
> Libvirt and OpenStack (taken from
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html)
>
> Bob
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