Libvirt driver - enable images as disks on the hypervisor local storage
As part of the havana blueprint improve-
The idea behind this is that we would be able to specify weather the image would be created on the hypervisor (dest=local) or will be downloaded onto a volume similar to a Cinder snapshot (dest=volume).
Implementing the 'dest: local' images will require some work:
* Since the way these block devices will be handled is different than what we currently have (for block devices) - we will need to generilize the code that does base image download in creation to be able to accept data passed as image block devices.
* We will likely want to take advantage of using base images and caching them on hypervisor nodes - so this blueprint will cover extending and generalizing the code in nova/virt/
* We will need to make sure that drivers can advertise to the manager code that they will accept these new block devices. Most of the groundwork for this is laid out in https:/
* We will likely want to add horizon support for this as well.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Russell Bryant
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Nikola Đipanov
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Review
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
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- Completed by
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Given the scope of the work listed, and no assignee, I'm kicking this out of I-1 for now. This also sounds like it could be split into separate blueprints for the first three bullet points.
Deferred to icehouse-3 as the blueprint was not approved by the icehouse-2 blueprint approval deadline. --russellb
ndipanov, says this is unlikely to make icehouse, so setting to "next" instead. --russellb
Removed from next, as next is now reserved for near misses from the last milestone --johnthetubaguy
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