Public bug reported: Currently, most/all nova-compute-* packages are tied to a specific hypervisor, usually associated with libvirt. As a result, you cannot install a bare minim nova-compute service that does not pull in a ton of dependencies. If a user wishes to run nova-compute using one of the drivers that directly offloads compute tasks to an external resource (VMware, oVirt, etc), they'll install 'nova-compute' (and libvirt-bin, qemu-kvm, etc.) I propose it would make sense to include a package (nova-compute-minimal?) that depends on nova-common + python-nova and installs only the minimum, eg: an upstart job and an empty /etc/nova /nova-compute.conf.
** Affects: nova (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to nova in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207930 Title: nova should provide a nova-compute-minimal (or similar)package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/+bug/1207930/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs