Thank you very much for the clarification :) On 02/11/15 12:15, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:03:58PM +0100, Pasquale Porreca wrote: >> Thank you for all answers. >> I know that meta data tags are "free" to use with any key/value, still >> there are some specific values that triggers pieces of code in nova (or >> maybe even in other components). In particular I am working on one of >> these key/value, in my case it should enable the >> >> <bios rebootTimeout=value/> >> >> parameter in libvirt. Anyway even if my code is merged, no one will know >> about it (except myself and the reviewers) if it is not documented >> somewhere. A DocImpact flag was added to the commit message, but I still >> don't know how to proper document it. I may create/update existing wiki >> pages, but I would have preferred an official documentation: I was not >> able to find the wiki page proposed by Daniel Berrange, even if I had >> been searching exactly to something similar :( >> It is very good that there is a work to objectify image meta, anyway is >> there any recommendation how to document it in the meanwhile? > For people submitting patches to nova the expectation is simply that they > add DocImpact and have a commit message that describes the usage of the > new property. The docs team work from this data. There's no current formal > docs that I'd expect you to be editing/updating. > >> I would also know if there is any naming convention for image meta and >> flavor extra-spec keys: in my case I used hw_reboot_timeoutand >> hw:reboot_timeout respectively, but it is more a bios than hardware >> feature and they are handled in nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py rather than >> nova/virt/hardware.py so maybe the name choice was not so good. > In terms of image metadata, broadly speaking, we're aiming to standardize > on 3 name prefixes in Nova > > 'hw' - stuff that affects guest hardware configuration (this includes > the BIOS settings, since that's hardware firmware) > 'os' - stuff that affects the guest operating system setup > 'img' - stuff Nova uses related to managing images > > So, your choice of 'hw_reboot_timeout' for image and 'hw:reboot_timeout' > for the flavour is correct. > > Regards, > Daniel
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