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Make ravada docker be able to use host KVM?

Open sotiris-bos opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Describe the solution you'd like Most of us use different OSes for hypervisor duties such as Proxmox etc. KVM accepts external connections. I was wondering if it is possible to connect the ravada application running in docker to the host's KVM instance so that we can use any host OS we like and we don't have to run KVM inside docker.

sotiris-bos avatar May 09 '20 16:05 sotiris-bos

This may be possible by mapping required qemu/kvm directories to the docker container but a more universal and better approach would be to use qemu+ssh like libvirt does. That could also enable adding multiple systems/hypervisors running KVM as multiple nodes to ravada.

This would make Ravada less like a hypervisor and more like a VDI broker, which is what has been missing from open source for a long time.

sotiris-bos avatar May 10 '20 09:05 sotiris-bos