[openstack-dev] [Containers] Nova virt driver requirements

Dmitry Guryanov dguryanov at parallels.com
Thu Jul 10 13:50:06 UTC 2014


On Monday 07 July 2014 16:11:21 Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2014 11:43 AM, "Dmitry Guryanov" <dguryanov at parallels.com> wrote:
> > Hi, All!
> > 
> > As far as I know, there are some requirements, which virt driver must
> 
> meet to
> 
> > use Openstack 'label'. For example, it's not allowed to mount cinder
> 
> volumes
> 
> > inside host OS.
> 
> I am a little unclear on what your question is. If it is simply about the
> OpenStack label then:
> 
> 'OpenStack' is a trademark that is enforced by the OpenStack foundation.
> You should check with the foundation to get a formal answer on commercial
> trademark usage. (As an OpenStack developer, my personal view is having out
> of tree drivers is a bad idea, but that decision isn't up to me.)
> 
> If this is about contributing your driver to nova (great!), then this is
> the right forum to begin that discussion. We don't have a formal list of
> requirements for contributing new drivers to nova besides the need for CI
> testing. If you are interested in contributing a new nova driver, can you
> provide a brief overview along with your questions to get the discussion
> started.
> 
> Also there is an existing efforts to add container support into nova and I
> hear they are making excellent progress; do you plan on collaborating with
> those folks?
> 
> > Are there any documents, describing all such things? How can I determine,
> 
> if
> 
> > my virtualization driver for nova (developed outside of nova mainline)
> 
> works
> 
> > correctly and meet nova's security requirements?

We have developed a driver, pcs-nova-driver (https://github.com/parallels/pcs-nova-driver), but decided to froze it and put efforts to containers driver 
together with nova-containers team and libvirt's driver.


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> > 
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