| Summary: | [RFE] Have KVM guests be IPMI-manageable | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <rdassen> |
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | bsarathy, dallan, ddumas, ddutile, esammons, jsafrane, juzhang, mkenneth, rbinkhor, rdassen, rwu, snagar, tburke, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-11-30 19:38:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 607248, 756082 | ||
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Description
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
2011-03-09 09:02:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #0) > What is the nature and description of the request? > >> Customer would like to add IPMI / SOL support to KVM guests. > > Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here) > >> ability to manage and monitor all RHEL servers the same way regardless of > >> platform. My initial interest was power management for RHCS fencing and We do have a mechanism for watchdog devices i6300esb/ib700 > >> SOL for remote console access. However, having all/most of IPMI supported > >> would allow much more flexibility in management and monitoring. Remote console can be setup using some mgmt daemon on the host getting the input/output from the virtual serial line Would that be acceptable? > > How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements > here) > >> IPMI and SOL support at the KVM guest level to match that already > >> available with physical hosts. > >> Monitor / Management (IPMI) > >> Remote Console (SOL) > >> Remote power management. > > For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat > and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully > implemented. > >> All features can be tested using system management technology that > >> leverages IPMI and SOL technologies. Customer currently uses management > >> tools from BMC. > > Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? > >> Not to my knowledge > > How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) > >> Customer would like to take advantage of this functionality as soon as > >> possible as Cloud and Virtualization become mainstream within their > >> environment. Preferred release vehicle would be a dot release in RHEL 6 > >> (6.2 if possible). > > Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) > >> Yes > > List the affected packages > >> Not certain in this case, may be kernel drivers or aspects of libvirt or > >> a combination of them both. |