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<div>I used the fake virt driver when I was testing zones. Very handy.</div>
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<div id="divRpF967304" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Brebner,
Gavin [gavin.brebner@hp.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 16, 2012 11:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> openstack@lists.launchpad.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] Using fake drivers for testing<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I’m interested in running some “white-box” tests that check scalability and limits of parts of a Nova system. I want to start from a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">full working configuration however, as I get that from my dev team and it includes all sorts of settings that would be tedious
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">and error prone to reproduce in other ways. My thought was that good use could be made of some of the “fake” drivers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">that are present – I’m hoping to be able to make some minimal code/config changes to swap the driver on my host node(s)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">for a fake one, restart the services and run tests.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Any caveats on this that I should be aware of ? For that matter has anyone tried this kind of thing before ? I’d be interested in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">hearing of your experiences if so.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> Gavin</span></p>
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