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All, 

Sean has done great work here by patching every bit of docs he could find including a diagram's source file. Outstanding. 

Anne Gentle
Content Stacker
anne at openstack.org


On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Sean Dague <sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> As we've been talking about deprecation recently, I wanted to make sure that folks were aware of a change in Folsom that they'll need to take action in by Grizzly. This is cross posted to operators to make sure users see this.
> 
> The connection_type parameter in nova.conf is deprecated for Folsom. This means it will still work as it did in Essex, but you'll get a warning log message about using it. It was the last module loader in nova that wasn't dynamic.
> 
> This is replaced by compute_driver, which takes the class name of the virt driver to load. It is using the new import_object_ns() function, which means if the compute driver is in the nova.virt namespace you don't need to include that part.
> 
> compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver
> 
> is completely valid.
> 
> All the code for this is in folsom already, devstack defaults to the above on new installs (as of a week or so ago), and most of the docs referencing connection_type have been changed (need a couple more changes today).
> 
> connection_type support will be removed in master as soon as Folsom is branched off, so it will be gone in Grizzly. So if you don't change your configs for Folsom (which you don't need to do), you will need to change them in Grizzly.
> 
>    -Sean
> 
> -- 
> Sean Dague
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> email: sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> alt-email: sldague at us.ibm.com
> 
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