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Hi Ravi and Daniel,

Good that we all converged on the need for this support in Nova Libvirt Driver.

We will collaborate together on this blueprint and make it upstream for IceHouse.

Regards,
Balaji.P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 11:52 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> Cc: Sean Dague
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for
> Nova libvirt driver
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:46:02AM -0700, Ravi Chunduru wrote:
> > Let me present an use case.
> > Today Nova enables to launch guests of different types.  For real
> > deployments we would need appliances from various vendors to run as
> > instances.  Appliances can be Loadbalancer, Firewall, IPsec, Routers
> > or UTM etc.,
> >
> > These appliances can be tied up with Neutron Services and would need
> > configuration from various services like FWaaS, LBaaS, VPNaaS etc.,
> > One way to configure these appliances from Neutron Agents is by
> > opening up the so needed virtio unix channel socket and reach the
> > configuration daemon in the appliance.
> > Other approach is by having a separate network for management
> > activities and having agent to communicate to a daemon in netns to
> > reach out to appliance.
> 
> Thanks, this is the kind of usage information I was asking for, wrt host
> integration. This shows the use case for virtio-serial is as a mechanism
> for integration between infrastructure pieces controlled by the cloud
> admin, not as something that is targetted towards end users of the cloud.
> 
> I think we need to have a detailed blueprint for this, describing the use
> case(s) to be addressed and proposing some possible design(s).
> 
> 
> Daniel
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