KVM NIC hotplugging requires python-fdsend to be installed, but this is only reported in the hotplug design document. We add mentions in INSTALL and NEWS.
Signed-off-by: Apollon Oikonomopoulos <[email protected]> --- INSTALL | 2 ++ NEWS | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index dfccc8a..fe2d1dc 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Before installing, please verify that you have the following programs: ``ganeti-listrunner`` - `affinity Python module <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/affinity/0.1.0>`_, optional python package for supporting CPU pinning under KVM +- `fdsend Python module <https://gitorious.org/python-fdsend>`_, + optional Python package for supporting NIC hotplugging under KVM - `qemu-img <http://qemu.org/>`_, if you want to use ``ovfconverter`` - `fping <http://fping.sourceforge.net/>`_ - `Python IP address manipulation library diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cc1153a..b731e4d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ New features - one can not (yet) hotplug a disk using userspace access mode for RBD - in case of a downgrade instances should suffer a reboot in order to be migratable (due to core change of runtime files) + - ``python-fdsend`` is required for NIC hotplugging. Misc changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -102,6 +103,9 @@ Python - The version requirements for ``python-mock`` have increased to at least version 1.0.1. It is still used for testing only. +- ``python-fdsend`` (https://gitorious.org/python-fdsend) is optional + but required for KVM NIC hotplugging to work. + Since 2.10.0 rc3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 1.9.0
