On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:46:02AM -0700, Ravi Chunduru wrote: > Let me present an use case. > Today Nova enables to launch guests of different types. For real > deployments we would need appliances from various vendors to run as > instances. Appliances can be Loadbalancer, Firewall, IPsec, Routers or > UTM etc., > > These appliances can be tied up with Neutron Services and would need > configuration from various services like FWaaS, LBaaS, VPNaaS etc., > One way to configure these appliances from Neutron Agents is by opening up > the so needed virtio unix channel socket and reach the configuration daemon > in the appliance. > Other approach is by having a separate network for management activities > and having agent to communicate to a daemon in netns to reach out to > appliance.
Thanks, this is the kind of usage information I was asking for, wrt host integration. This shows the use case for virtio-serial is as a mechanism for integration between infrastructure pieces controlled by the cloud admin, not as something that is targetted towards end users of the cloud. I think we need to have a detailed blueprint for this, describing the use case(s) to be addressed and proposing some possible design(s). Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
