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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com]
> Sent: 21 October 2014 13:08
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Summit] Coordination between OpenStack &
> lower layer virt stack (libvirt, QEMU/KVM)
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:58:48PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > I was discussing $subject on #openstack-nova, Nikola Dipanov suggested
> > it's worthwhile to bring this up on the list.
> >
> > I was looking at
> >
> >     http://kilodesignsummit.sched.org/
> >
> > and noticed there's no specific session (correct me if I'm wrong)
> > that's targeted at coordination between OpenStack <-> libvirt <-> QEMU/KVM.
> 
> At previous summits, Nova has given each virt driver a dedicated session in its
> track. Those sessions have pretty much just been a walkthrough of the various
> features each virt team was planning.
> 
> We always have far more topics to discuss than we have time available, and for
> this summit we want to change direction to maximise the value extracted from
> face-to-face meetings.
> 
> As such any session which is just duplicating stuff that could easily be dealt with
> over email or irc is being cut, to make room for topics where we really need to
> have the f2f discussions. So the virt driver general sessions from previous
> summits are not likely to be on the schedule this time around.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> --

It would also be interesting if the features of KVM could be made available through OpenStack around the same time.. virtio-blk data plane would be an example where we can't work out how to exploit it out of the box under OpenStack.

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