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vmwareapi: Mark driver as experimental

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Once again, the CI has disappeared for this. It doesn't appear to be a
priority for VMWare and we'd be lying to users if we suggested
otherwise. Mark the driver as experimental. We can explore deprecating
it down the line once it starts costing us.

Change-Id: I48d9812851449768797bbe799b3fe84fa2ce6d02
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <sfinucan@redhat.com>
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Stephen Finucane 2022-11-07 17:40:47 +00:00
parent 9baade7ea1
commit 713ef78396
2 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions
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nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py
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@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ class VMwareVCDriver(driver.ComputeDriver):
self._datastore_regex = None
def init_host(self, host):
LOG.warning(
'The vmwareapi driver is not tested by the OpenStack project nor '
'does it have clear maintainer(s) and thus its quality can not be '
'ensured. It should be considered experimental and may be removed '
'in a future release. If you are using the driver in production '
'please let us know via the openstack-discuss mailing list.'
)
vim = self._session.vim
if vim is None:
self._session._create_session()

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releasenotes/notes/vmware-experimental-antelope-16a1342dd5e6ba09.yaml Normal file
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@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
---
deprecations:
- |
The vmwareapi driver is marked as experimental and may be removed in a
future release. The driver is not tested by the OpenStack project and
does not have a clear maintainer.