On 19 May 2011 05:39, Lucian lucian@lastdot.org wrote:
No and I don't think it's the hypervisor's job to do that. Even in ESXi I don't think it's the "hypervisor" itself that does that. You could try however to mess with Openvswitch if you insist on such features, at least until someone decides to package all this in one fancy solution (rhev?).
thank you for pointing out openvswitch very interesting
wrt the OP
KVM is meant to be much closer to bare metal performance but doesn't have (at the moment) the all inclusive, easily managed from one console, turnkey solution to massive virtual installs at the datacentre level. If you need to be able to remotely provision VMs and move them whilst live from one centre to another whilst upscaling them then you will probably need to go with vmware. If you have got the flattened layer2 setup and have got to the stage of using vSwitch or the full cisco stack including provisioned nexus1000v then you might find kvm is a bit of a step backwards.
However i would recommend having a KVM based test suite as judging by the latest PaaS and IaaS news coming from TUV then a full solution will be appearing real soon and may be a contender.
If you are just looking to footer about and are after a provisioned host in a dmz then libvirt can achieve this.
mike