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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:24:19PM +0100, John Garbutt wrote:
> Oops, one possible addition to Grizzly: Quantum work
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Garbutt
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:22 PM
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> > Cc: Clay Gerrard (clay.gerrard at rackspace.com)
> > Subject: XenAPI Meeting
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry about the XenAPI meeting, I got pulled away from my keyboard and lost
> > track of time.
> > Should we try a meeting same time next week, or try and catch up on email
> > instead?
> > Here is a step towards the second idea...
> > 
> > The update from the Citrix side is that the following have made it into XenAPI in
> > Folsom:
> > - live migration (of simple VMs) without shared storage
> > - boot from volume
> > - XenServer pool based live migration (pending one last bug fix)
> > - slightly improved documentation
> > - automated QA against trunk XenServer and trunk OpenStack, and released
> > XenServer and Stable/Essex
> > 
> > Currently, our ideas for Grizzly are to take a look at (although I can't commit to
> > these just yet):
> > - config drive for XenAPI
> > - GPU passthrough
> Help make Quantum work better with XenAPI

You probably want to keep an eye on this bug then:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046766

It records some of the architectural design issues I have with Quantum.
A solution to the design issues should make it much better at integrating
with different Nova compute drivers

Daniel
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