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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:54 PM Lee Yarwood <lyarwood at redhat.com> wrote:
> The original change introducing support suggests this was due to Nova
> not supporting booting from volumes in 2013?
>
> Add RBD supporting to libvirt for creating local volume
> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/36042/

Thanks, seems I was afraid to dig that deep (or really git did not
want me to). :-)
That explains a lot.

> > Other Cinder backends did not get support from Nova.
>
> Yeah as since I've worked on Nova we've mostly pushed devs and users to
> Cinder for any additional exotic storage backend support.

Thank you, all clear.

-yoctozepto