Re: [Condor-users] [Condor-devel] How about adding VirtualBox as another option to the VM universe?

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/18/2011 10:00 AM, Rob wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a feeling that VirtualBox is catching up very fast in the VM world.
>
> Here at my university I also have several Windows machines on which
> VMware 1.0.10 does not work (and nobody knows why; funny hardware?), but
> VirtualBox works like a charm!
>
> VirtualBox also comes with an API, which (I assume) can help Condor to
> do the same thing as what Condor does not with VMware.
>
> Therefore I wonder:
>
> 1. Has somebody already done something along these lines?
>
> 2. I am willing to help, despite my limited knowledge of the API and VM
> stuff.
>
>
> I think a VirtualBox VM universe could make Condor's virtual machining
> more up-to-date.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob.

Condor uses two interfaces to manage VM guests on execute nodes: 0) 
libvirt; 1) VMware Server 1.0(?).

The libvirt website lists VirtualBox as a supported hypervisor. It 
should be a matter of crafting the proper domain xml to use virtual box.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/condor-cloud.git has some examples of 
how you can inject domain xml as an attribute to a job and have that xml 
then passed to libvirt. If you can work out the xml then it is a 
straightforward task to update condor_submit and condor_vm-gahp to 
include virtual box as another VM Universe type alongside vmware, kvm 
and xen.

Best,


matt