Better network volume support in the libvirt driver

Registered by Christoph Hellwig

Currently the libvirt network volume driver does only supports a source volume name attribute, but that is too little for some complex RBD or sheepdog configurations, and not enough for supporting NBD at all as the libvirt nbd support requires a source hostname and port attribute.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Vish Ishaya
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Christoph Hellwig
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Josh Durgin
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for havana
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.2
Started by
Vish Ishaya
Completed by
Russell Bryant

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I'm removing this from the grizzly plan since there is no code up for review. --Russell

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/better-libvirt-network-volume-support,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/15443
    generalize the libvirt network volume driver

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1077817,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/30790
    libvirt: improve the specification of network disks

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