Joe has a good answer, but you should also be aware of the hypervisor support matrix (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix), which hopefully comes some way to explaining what we expect of a nova driver.
Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Joe Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2014 11:43 AM, "Dmitry Guryanov" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, All! >> >> As far as I know, there are some requirements, which virt driver must meet >> to >> use Openstack 'label'. For example, it's not allowed to mount cinder >> volumes >> inside host OS. > > I am a little unclear on what your question is. If it is simply about the > OpenStack label then: > > 'OpenStack' is a trademark that is enforced by the OpenStack foundation. You > should check with the foundation to get a formal answer on commercial > trademark usage. (As an OpenStack developer, my personal view is having out > of tree drivers is a bad idea, but that decision isn't up to me.) > > If this is about contributing your driver to nova (great!), then this is the > right forum to begin that discussion. We don't have a formal list of > requirements for contributing new drivers to nova besides the need for CI > testing. If you are interested in contributing a new nova driver, can you > provide a brief overview along with your questions to get the discussion > started. > > Also there is an existing efforts to add container support into nova and I > hear they are making excellent progress; do you plan on collaborating with > those folks? > >> >> Are there any documents, describing all such things? How can I determine, >> if >> my virtualization driver for nova (developed outside of nova mainline) >> works >> correctly and meet nova's security requirements? >> >> >> -- >> Dmitry Guryanov >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
