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Joe has a good answer, but you should also be aware of the hypervisor
support matrix (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix),
which hopefully comes some way to explaining what we expect of a nova
driver.

Cheers,
Michael

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 3, 2014 11:43 AM, "Dmitry Guryanov" <dguryanov at parallels.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, All!
>>
>> As far as I know, there are some requirements, which virt driver must meet
>> to
>> use Openstack 'label'. For example, it's not allowed to mount cinder
>> volumes
>> inside host OS.
>
> I am a little unclear on what your question is. If it is simply about the
> OpenStack label then:
>
> 'OpenStack' is a trademark that is enforced by the OpenStack foundation. You
> should check with the foundation to get a formal answer on commercial
> trademark usage. (As an OpenStack developer, my personal view is having out
> of tree drivers is a bad idea, but that decision isn't up to me.)
>
> If this is about contributing your driver to nova (great!), then this is the
> right forum to begin that discussion. We don't have a formal list of
> requirements for contributing new drivers to nova besides the need for CI
> testing. If you are interested in contributing a new nova driver, can you
> provide a brief overview along with your questions to get the discussion
> started.
>
> Also there is an existing efforts to add container support into nova and I
> hear they are making excellent progress; do you plan on collaborating with
> those folks?
>
>>
>> Are there any documents, describing all such things? How can I determine,
>> if
>> my virtualization driver for nova (developed outside of nova mainline)
>> works
>> correctly and meet nova's security requirements?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Guryanov
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