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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 16:45:26 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 07:38:05PM +0300, Itzik Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see that the option to specify vif_driver in nova.conf for libvirt is
> deprecated for Juno release.

Hmm, that is not right. There's no intention to remove the vif_driver
parameter itself. We were supposed to merely deprecate the various
legacy VIF driver implementations in Nova, not remove the ability
to use 3rd party ones.

> What is the way to use an external VIF driver (i.e. that is out of the
> tree)?

Continue using the 'vif_driver' config parameter.

Regards,
Daniel
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