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I agree this has stalled for too long, although I feel like
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/040421.html
has progressed the topic a little.

On the other hand, its been a busy patch in the cycle and I think we
can get this conversation back on track now. That's why I cc'ed the
main protagonists into my email on this thread.

Michael

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Mike Perez <thingee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10:21 Mon 21 Jul     , Michael Still wrote:
>> I just want to check my understanding -- it seems to me that this
>> depends on a feature that's very new to libvirt (merged there 22 May
>> 2014). Is that right?
>>
>> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=d950494129513558a303387e26a2bab057012c5e
>
> Yes, this was mentioned in the Nova spec itself.
>
>> We've had some concerns about adding features to the libvirt driver
>> for features represented only in very new versions of libvirt.
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72038/ is an example. Now, its clear
>> to me that we don't yet have a consensus on nova-core on how to handle
>> features depending on very new libvirts. There are certainly CI
>> concerns at the least.
>>
>> So, I think approving this exception is tied up in that whole debate.
>> Hopefully we can get that sorted out soon (and possibly unblock
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72038/ depending on the outcome).
>>
>> Michael
>
> For what it's worth, it's optional and the administrator would have to really
> go out of their way to enable this in two ways:
>
> * You have to be using a Cinder driver that uses the vhost connector to pass
>   the connection data to Nova.
> * Glance metadata of an image has to have these options set.
>
> The review you provided with the debate raised by Dan Smith has been stale for
> 19 days with Daniel waiting for a reply. Should we have this listed for the
> next Nova meeting?
>
> --
> Mike Perez
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