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+Some *cloud*y things.
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+[[!toc]]
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+# [[!wikipedia OpenStack]]
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-21
+
+    <jproulx> Hmmm, was hoping to run hurd on my kvm based openstack cloud, but
+      no virtio.
+    <jproulx> I see "Write virtio drivers for KVM. Ideally they would be
+      userland" is listed as a "small hack", as a sysadmin rather than an OS
+      hacker it doesn't sound small to me, but if there's some standard
+      documentation on porting drivers I could take a run at it.
+    <youpi> well, perhaps "small" is not the proper word
+    <youpi> compared to e.g. revamping disk i/o :)
+    <youpi> it's not something one can achieve in e.g. 1h, for instance
+    <youpi> it's not something straightforward either, one has to get
+      documentation about virtio (I don't know what exists), and get
+      documentation about the mach device interface (that's in the gnumach
+      manual, the devnode translator can be used as a skeleton)
+    <youpi> jproulx: openstack imposes the use of virtio drivers? that's odd
+    <jproulx> that's more like I'd expect. I there's enough search terms in
+      your response for me to see what's really involved
+    <jproulx> youpi it doesn't impose that but it is how mine is configured the
+      other thousand VMs are happier that way.
+    <jproulx> I can look at that side too and see if I need to have everything
+      use the same device settings or if I can control it per instance
+    <jproulx> A bit of a non-sequitur at this point but just in case someone
+      searches the transcripts and sees my questions about hurd on openstack,
+      yes it is possible to specify non-virtio devices per image, here's the
+      commandline to load sthibault's qemu image into openstack with devices
+      that work:
+    <jproulx> glance image-create --property hw_disk_bus=ide --property
+      hw_cdrom_bus=ide --property hw_vif_model=rtl8139 --disk-format raw
+      --container-format bare --name gnu-hurd --copy-from
+      http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img
+    <youpi> jproulx: thanks, I've pushed it on the wiki