On 02/10/2014 10:15 PM, Bob Ball wrote: > The second part is that XCP/XenServer support in OpenStack > makes use of a VM which is where nova is run. Both Debian > and Ubuntu can be used as those without any XAPI XCP > packages, and only need the XenAPI.py API wrapper script. > In this way Debian acts purely as a client to the "remote" > XenAPI server. > As such, there is no reason that "XCP support in OpenStack" > should be removed from Debian, since such support does not > depend on Debian being able to act as a XCP server. > > Bob
Hi bob, I don't agree with this view. If there's no XCP in Debian, I don't see the point in supporting it in OpenStack. (and no, adding support for the "magical" Citrix CentOS appliance blackbox isn't something I wish to do...) Also, there's the need of python-xenapi in OpenStack, which was provided by the xen-api sources. As I wrote, in Debian, I removed XCP support in OpenStack (in fact, in Nova) a long time ago, because xen-api was removed from testing, which therefore was blocking Nova to migrate to testing. So even if I wanted to support something which isn't in Debian, I wouldn't be able because of the lack of the XenAPI python module. Again, I'm unhappy about this situation, and hope it can be solved. I warmly welcome Citrix to work with me (again) to fix this quickly. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
