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On 19 July 2014 00:56, Alessandro Pilotti
<apilotti at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’d like to propose the following driver feature parity blueprint spec for an expection:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/105042
>
> This blueprint introduces rescue instance support in the Nova Hyper-V
> driver for feature parity with other drivers.
>
> The Hyper-V Nova driver is currently not supporting Nova "rescue" commands,
> unlike other hypervisor drivers (e.g. libvirt).
>
> The driver can be extended to support the "rescue" feature,
> supporting both Linux and Windows images.
>
> Hyper-V uses VHD/VHDX images, not AMI/AKI/ARI. The Nova rescue command will
> result in a new temporary image spawned using the same image as the instance to
> be rescued, attaching the root disk of the original image as secondary local
> disk.
>
> The "unrescue" command will result in the temporary instance being deleted and
> the original instance restarted.

I think this helps make the hypervisor drivers more consistent.

Thats important to our users, so I am happy to sponsor this blueprint.

Thanks,
John