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On 09/06/2013 05:16 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Alessandro Pilotti wrote:
>> This is an FFE request for adding console support for Hyper-V. Unlike
>> most other hypervisors, Hyper-V guest console access is based on RDP
>> instead of VNC. This blueprint adds RDP support in Nova, implemented in
>> a way consistent with the existing VNC and SPICE protocols.  
>>
>> It's an essential feature for Hyper-V, requiring a relatively small
>> implementation in the Hyper-V driver and a Nova public API .
> 
> So I'm a bit reluctant on this one... It seems to still need some
> significant review work (and i don't want to distract Nova core team and
> prevent them to focus on bugs), it introduces new parameters and
> therefore impacts documentation, and the feature will see limited
> testing due to its late landing.
> 
> I'm happy to be overruled by Russell if he thinks this can make it in
> the next few days, but personally I doubt that.
> 
> The exception game always seems quite unfair to the people who get
> caught on the wrong side of this artificial fence... but the line has to
> be drawn somewhere so that we can focus on bugfixing as soon as
> possible. Nova's H3 timeframe has seen so many features added that I'm
> quite concerned about our ability to close the most obvious bugs in all
> of them in time for our final release next month.

Yeah, this one will require a significant review time investment, so I
think it should wait.  I'm glad we were able to get a number of your
other features in, at least.

NACK on the FFE.

-- 
Russell Bryant