[openstack-dev] live-snapshot/cloning of virtual machines

Tim Smith tsmith at gridcentric.com
Tue Aug 27 16:04:09 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> > What about publishing the API as blacklisted by default? This way it
>  > would be available only to users that enable it explicitly, while still
> > supporting the scenario described above.
>
> It still makes no sense to me to merge an API for a feature that can't
> be used.
>

While it's true that there won't be an in-tree driver that supports the API
for this release cycle, we have a commercial driver that supports it (
https://github.com/gridcentric/cobalt).

Having the API standardized in Havana would ensure that client support is
immediately available for our users as well as for the other hypervisor
vendors should they release a supporting driver in the next 9 months. I
believe there is precedent for publishing a nova API for those purposes.



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