[openstack-dev] [nova] Supporting volume_type when booting from volume

Sean McGinnis sean.mcginnis at gmx.com
Tue May 23 14:00:52 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:47:44PM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> Just wanted to point out that someone else requested this again today:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/466595/
> 
> 30 seconds going through launchpad for old blueprints found at least 4
> others:
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vol-type-with-blank-vol
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/volume-support-for-multi-hypervisors
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/support-boot-instance-set-store-type
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ec2-volume-type
> 
> And I know cburgess and garyk at least had one each of their own.
> 
> Is this really something we are going to have to deny at least once per
> release? My God how is it that this is the #1 thing everyone for all time
> has always wanted Nova to do for them?
> 
> I'm honestly starting to get concerned.

To add to this, I've had this question/ask coming in on the Cinder side
quite often as well. There's a definite desire from users to be able to
do this.

Sean



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