Prompted by Sean’s comment on a different thread: * nova has a policy of not allowign any use of raw qemu args I’ve seen this come up a number of times, but I don’t recall seeing the justification for this policy. We are looking at a scenario where we (as an operator) want to add some specific additional qemu flags to some VMs, but we’re now having to run a local Nova patch to achieve this (experiments with libvirt-hooks haven’t proven fruitful. I can see why we wouldn’t want users to add arbitrary flags, but an unsupported YMMV option in Nova would be helpful -- Regards, Nathan Harper Principal Engineer – Cloud Development Platform Engineering nathanh@graphcore.ai<mailto:nathanh@graphcore.ai> www.graphcore.ai →<http://www.graphcore.ai/> ** We have updated our privacy policy, which contains important information about how we collect and process your personal data. To read the policy, please click here<http://www.graphcore.ai/privacy> ** This email and its attachments are intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or disseminate this email in any way; to do so may be unlawful. Any personal data/special category personal data herein are processed in accordance with UK data protection legislation. All associated feasible security measures are in place. Further details are available from the Privacy Notice on the website and/or from the Company. Graphcore Limited (registered in England and Wales with registration number 10185006) is registered at, 1 Maple Road, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, UK, SK7 2DH. This message was scanned for viruses upon transmission. However Graphcore accepts no liability for any such transmission.