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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:46:39 -0400
From: Chip Childers <chip.childers@sungard.com>
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Subject: Re: Ceph RBD With Xen Server
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:49:48PM +0100, Adrian Lewis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> First post and only just subscribed so not sure if this will connect up
> with the existing thread but I’m very interested in XenServer and Ceph/RBD.
> I understand that Wido has informally committed to building the
> Xenserver/RBD glue when it is supported on XenServer (think this was in a
> video I saw on youtube). With this in mind, I’m wondering if this is
> something that could still be added to 4.2 based on the info in
> http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/tech-preview-of-xenserver-libvirt-ceph.html.
> I realise that it’s not ready yet on the XenServer side but is this
> something that might make it to 4.2 in advance of the XenServer development
> as opposed to waiting for 4.3? Can the Cloudstack side of things be
> developed in advance of the Xenserver elements?

I'll only answer with regard to the status of new features and 4.2.  We
have hit feature freeze for that release now, so if it's technically
possible to build the feature ahead of XenServer it would end up in the
next feature release of CloudStack (assuming that someone builds it).