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<div>On Sep 30, 2013, at 20:21 , Daniel P. Berrange <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com">berrange@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:46:02AM -0700, Ravi Chunduru wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Let me present an use case.<br>
Today Nova enables to launch guests of different types. For real<br>
deployments we would need appliances from various vendors to run as<br>
instances. Appliances can be Loadbalancer, Firewall, IPsec, Routers or<br>
UTM etc.,<br>
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These appliances can be tied up with Neutron Services and would need<br>
configuration from various services like FWaaS, LBaaS, VPNaaS etc.,<br>
One way to configure these appliances from Neutron Agents is by opening up<br>
the so needed virtio unix channel socket and reach the configuration daemon<br>
in the appliance.<br>
Other approach is by having a separate network for management activities<br>
and having agent to communicate to a daemon in netns to reach out to<br>
appliance.<br>
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Thanks, this is the kind of usage information I was asking for, wrt<br>
host integration. This shows the use case for virtio-serial is as a<br>
mechanism for integration between infrastructure pieces controlled by<br>
the cloud admin, not as something that is targetted towards end users<br>
of the cloud.<br>
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I think we need to have a detailed blueprint for this, describing the<br>
use case(s) to be addressed and proposing some possible design(s).<br>
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Daniel<br>
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