<div dir="ltr">I agree, I was wondering having additional support for such a feature would definitely have value addition for adoption of OpenStack. It can be developed as an optional functionality during host addition which users can opt on case-to-case basis.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Best <span></span><span></span>Regards,<br>Swapnil <br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbryant@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbryant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 10/30/2013 02:36 AM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote:<br>
> I had a discussion with russellb regarding this for yesterday, I would<br>
> like to discuss this with the team regarding the blueprint mentioned in<br>
> subject.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-vm-discovery-on-hypervisor" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-vm-discovery-on-hypervisor</a><br>
><br>
> Description: Organizations opting to use openstack can have varied<br>
> amount of workload that they would like to be available directly with<br>
> the use of some discovery workflows. One common usage of this would be<br>
> exising virtual machines present on the hypervisors. If this instances<br>
> can be disovered by the compute agent during discovery, it would help to<br>
> use Openstack to manage the existing workload directly. Auto VM<br>
> Discovery will enable this functionality initially for KVM guests, the<br>
> widely used hypervisor configuration in OpenStack deployments and<br>
> enhance it further for other hypervisors.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I feel that Nova managing VMs that it didn't create is not an<br>
appropriate use case to support.<br>
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Russell Bryant<br>
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