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Flexible block device config

Registered by Daniel Berrange

The current means for configuring block devices is very restrictive, only allowing a fraction of the desired guest configurations. The configuration support needs to be extended to allow arbitrary choices of block device source and guest device type/bus/format

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Russell Bryant
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Daniel Berrange
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Daniel Berrange
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Russell Bryant

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This is pretty much a duplicate of https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/improve-block-device-handling, so I'm just going to close this one out. --russellb

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/improve-block-device-handling,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/20339
    New block device API extension - WIP

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/improve-boot-from-volume,n,z

Related mailing list threads: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/thread.html#4842

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