I agree this has stalled for too long, although I feel like http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/040421.html has progressed the topic a little.
On the other hand, its been a busy patch in the cycle and I think we can get this conversation back on track now. That's why I cc'ed the main protagonists into my email on this thread. Michael On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Mike Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10:21 Mon 21 Jul , Michael Still wrote: >> I just want to check my understanding -- it seems to me that this >> depends on a feature that's very new to libvirt (merged there 22 May >> 2014). Is that right? >> >> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=d950494129513558a303387e26a2bab057012c5e > > Yes, this was mentioned in the Nova spec itself. > >> We've had some concerns about adding features to the libvirt driver >> for features represented only in very new versions of libvirt. >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72038/ is an example. Now, its clear >> to me that we don't yet have a consensus on nova-core on how to handle >> features depending on very new libvirts. There are certainly CI >> concerns at the least. >> >> So, I think approving this exception is tied up in that whole debate. >> Hopefully we can get that sorted out soon (and possibly unblock >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72038/ depending on the outcome). >> >> Michael > > For what it's worth, it's optional and the administrator would have to really > go out of their way to enable this in two ways: > > * You have to be using a Cinder driver that uses the vhost connector to pass > the connection data to Nova. > * Glance metadata of an image has to have these options set. > > The review you provided with the debate raised by Dan Smith has been stale for > 19 days with Daniel waiting for a reply. Should we have this listed for the > next Nova meeting? > > -- > Mike Perez > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
