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Lee Yarwood 035315b05b libvirt: Add support for stable device rescue
This change introduces a new method of instance rescue to the Libvirt
driver where all original devices remain attached in their original
order while booting from the provided rescue image. This differs from
the original method of instance rescue where only the rescue disk,
original root disk and regenerated config drive would be attached.

This new method is enabled by the presence of either the
hw_rescue_device or hw_rescue_bus image metadata properties on the
provided rescue image. As their name suggests these properties control
the device and bus type used to attach the rescue boot device to the
instance. The properties will allow users to rescue instances using the
emulated equivalents of more traditional bare metal rescue media such as
USB disks or CD-ROM ISOs.

While the rescue disk is attached last to the instance we are able to
boot directly from it using the boot element and order attribute when
defining the disk within the Libvirt domain [1]. This is not however
supported for Xen or LXC virt types and as a result this new method is
not available for these types.

To enable this new mode and building on I9c2d9013d741774e521021913ec0 we
can now provide the full block_device_info for the instance when
building the disk mapping where we now add the rescue boot device. This
now allows instances with attached volumes to be rescued. Boot from
volume instances however are still not supported and blocked within the
compute API. Future work will remove this restriction.

[1] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsNICSBoot

Implements: blueprint virt-rescue-stable-disk-devices
Change-Id: I0e1241ae691afd2af12ef15706c454c05d9f932c
2020-04-09 08:39:35 +01:00
api-guide/source Merge "Non-Admin user can filter their instances by more filters" 2020-03-26 14:29:46 +00:00
api-ref/source Allow PUT volume attachments API to modify delete_on_termination 2020-04-02 09:26:55 -07:00
devstack Merge "Find instance in another cell during floating IP re-association" 2019-09-13 15:19:55 +00:00
doc api: Add microversion for extra spec validation 2020-04-08 13:20:02 +00:00
etc/nova nova-net: Kill it 2020-01-14 21:25:56 +00:00
gate nova-live-migration: Only stop n-cpu and q-agt during evacuation testing 2020-03-21 17:08:47 +00:00
nova libvirt: Add support for stable device rescue 2020-04-09 08:39:35 +01:00
playbooks Enable cross-cell resize in the nova-multi-cell job 2019-12-23 10:10:57 -05:00
releasenotes api: Add microversion for extra spec validation 2020-04-08 13:20:02 +00:00
roles Enable cross-cell resize in the nova-multi-cell job 2019-12-23 10:10:57 -05:00
tools Keep pre-commit inline with hacking and fix whitespace 2019-12-12 14:56:39 +00:00
.coveragerc Remove nova/openstack/* from .coveragerc 2016-10-12 16:20:49 -04:00
.gitignore Delete the placement code 2019-04-28 20:06:15 +00:00
.gitreview OpenDev Migration Patch 2019-04-19 19:45:52 +00:00
.mailmap Add mailmap entry 2014-05-07 12:14:26 -07:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Switch to hacking 2.x 2020-01-17 11:30:40 +00:00
.stestr.conf Finish stestr migration 2017-11-24 16:51:12 -05:00
.zuul.yaml Add cyborg tempest job. 2020-03-31 00:24:01 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.rst [Community goal] Update contributor documentation 2020-03-25 12:01:37 +00:00
HACKING.rst Merge "Make it easier to run a selection of tests relevant to ongoing work" 2019-11-22 20:58:18 +00:00
LICENSE initial commit 2010-05-27 23:05:26 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Fix broken URLs 2017-09-07 15:42:31 +02:00
README.rst Start README.rst with a better title 2019-11-19 17:29:28 +01:00
babel.cfg Get rid of distutils.extra. 2012-02-08 19:30:39 -08:00
bindep.txt Added openssh-client into bindep 2019-10-23 07:21:23 +00:00
lower-constraints.txt api: Add framework for extra spec validation 2020-04-08 12:47:01 +00:00
requirements.txt api: Add framework for extra spec validation 2020-04-08 12:47:01 +00:00
setup.cfg api: Add support for new cyborg extra specs 2020-04-08 13:19:39 +00:00
setup.py Updated from global requirements 2017-03-02 11:50:48 +00:00
test-requirements.txt requirements: Limit hacking to one minor version 2020-01-20 14:35:19 +00:00
tox.ini api: Add framework for extra spec validation 2020-04-08 12:47:01 +00:00

README.rst

OpenStack Nova

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OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of compute technologies, including: libvirt (KVM, Xen, LXC and more), Hyper-V, VMware, XenServer, OpenStack Ironic and PowerVM.

Use the following resources to learn more.

API

To learn how to use Nova's API, consult the documentation available online at:

For more information on OpenStack APIs, SDKs and CLIs in general, refer to:

Operators

To learn how to deploy and configure OpenStack Nova, consult the documentation available online at:

In the unfortunate event that bugs are discovered, they should be reported to the appropriate bug tracker. If you obtained the software from a 3rd party operating system vendor, it is often wise to use their own bug tracker for reporting problems. In all other cases use the master OpenStack bug tracker, available at:

Developers

For information on how to contribute to Nova, please see the contents of the CONTRIBUTING.rst.

Any new code must follow the development guidelines detailed in the HACKING.rst file, and pass all unit tests.

Further developer focused documentation is available at:

Other Information

During each Summit and Project Team Gathering, we agree on what the whole community wants to focus on for the upcoming release. The plans for nova can be found at: