ganeti.hypervisor

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Virtualization interface abstraction

Module hv_base Base class for all hypervisors
Module hv_chroot Chroot manager hypervisor
Module hv_fake Fake hypervisor
Package hv_kvm KVM hypervisor
Module hv_lxc LXC hypervisor
Module hv_xen Xen hypervisors

From __init__.py:

Function GetHypervisor Return a Hypervisor instance.
Function GetHypervisorClass Return a Hypervisor class.
Constant _HYPERVISOR_MAP Undocumented
_HYPERVISOR_MAP =

Undocumented

Value
{constants.HT_XEN_PVM: hv_xen.XenPvmHypervisor,
 constants.HT_XEN_HVM: hv_xen.XenHvmHypervisor,
 constants.HT_FAKE: hv_fake.FakeHypervisor,
 constants.HT_KVM: hv_kvm.KVMHypervisor,
 constants.HT_CHROOT: hv_chroot.ChrootManager,
 constants.HT_LXC: hv_lxc.LXCHypervisor}
def GetHypervisorClass(ht_kind):

Return a Hypervisor class.

This function returns the hypervisor class corresponding to the given hypervisor name.

Parameters
ht_kind:stringThe requested hypervisor type
def GetHypervisor(ht_kind):

Return a Hypervisor instance.

This is a wrapper over GetHypervisorClass which returns an instance of the class.

Parameters
ht_kind:stringThe requested hypervisor type