I am ok with a staged approach, although I do think its something we should start in Kilo. That said though, we emit a warning if the installation doesn't have a working libguestfs in juno.
Michael On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:53:36AM +1000, Michael Still wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I know we've been talking about deprecating nova.virt.disk.vfs.localfs >> for a long time, in favour of wanting people to use libguestfs >> instead. However, I can't immediately find any written documentation >> for when we said we'd do that thing. >> >> Additionally, this came to my attention because Ubuntu 14.04 is >> apparently shipping a libguestfs old enough to cause us to emit the >> "falling back to localfs" warning, so I think we need Ubuntu to catch >> up before we can do this thing. >> >> So -- how about we remove localfs early in Kilo to give Canonical a >> release to update libguestfs? > > Rather than removing localfs right away how about we add an explicit > config parameter to control behaviour > > vfs_impl=auto|guestfs|localfs > > where > > auto == try libguestfs, fallback to localfs > guestfs == try libguestfs, error otherwise > localfs == try localfs, error otherwise > > Currently we do 'auto' behaviour but in Kilo we could make 'guestfs' > be the default, so there is no fallback. That way distros will quickly > see if they have a problem, but still have option to reconfigure to > use localfs if they need to. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| > > _______________________________________________ > 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
