Description of problem: vhostmd is used presently to provide host level statistics to guests running SAP software. vhostmd is a custom interface that is only used for SAP running on top of KVM guests. It would be desirable to move the SAP requirements to a communication transport that is more standardized. One option is to provide the host level statistics via the Matahari host/guest interface via the virtio-serial transport. Some notes on what vhostmd does presently: - vhostmd on the host regularly reads /etc/vhostmd.conf and processes the commands in this XML file to gather the required metrics - the results form the commands are written into another XML-file which is normally stored in /dev/shm/vhostmd0 - /dev/shm/vhostmd0 hast to be attached as a file-based storage device to any guest that wants to read the metrics - on the guest "vm-dump-metrics" is called by saposcol to gather the metrics; saposcoll then processes the XML-file and feeds the metrics into the SAP system itself
Has anyone talked to SAP about this? They will need to do extra work on saposocl.
Richard, yes there has been a meeting a while ago between Andrew, Perry and the SAP developer who maintains saposcol, and SAP is aware that there might be work required on their side.
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Per Perry, closing this out. Problem will be solved in a different manner.