[openstack-dev] [nova] Configuring libivrt VIF driver

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Aug 27 14:06:45 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:02:10PM +0300, Itzik Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following the conversation [1]:
> My understanding was that the way to use out of the tree vif_driver is to
> set vif_driver option in nova.conf
> until there is a better way to support such cases but the commit [2] removed
> this option.
> Can someone clarify the current status (i.e. what is the current way to do
> it ) in Juno?

For Juno the vif_driver option still exists & can be used.

It is only deleted in the Kilo release.

The recommendation is that people working on new VIF drivers should do
so on a branch of the Nova repo, so that the can modify the libvirt VIF
driver code to support their needs, rather than try to write a completely
isolated out of tree impl. This is an approach that will need to be taken
regardless in order to submit the VIF driver for review and merge to Nova.

Regards,
Daniel
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