Right now, the guideline for developers is not that sufficient. Nova has lots of components. I always learn it by debugging a certain component to see how it works. Here's several useful links: https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/doc http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/ You can also google "OpenStack Nova Architecture" or something else to find your answers. Besides, here's a wonderful blog for introducing nova architecture: http://ken.pepple.info/openstack/2011/04/22/openstack-nova-architecture/ Cheers, -- Li Ma (Nick) Architect of Stackinsider Email: skywalker.nick at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20131009/63e666bc/attachment.html>