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Stephen Finucane d983234288 conf: Allow users to unset 'keymap' options
Defining the 'keymap' option in libvirt results in the '-k' option being
passed through to QEMU [1][2]. This QEMU option has some uses, primarily
for users interacting with QEMU via stdin on the text console. However,
for users interacting with QEMU via VNC or Spice, like nova users do, it
is strongly recommended to never add the "-k" option. Doing so will
force QEMU to do keymap conversions which are known to be lossy. This
disproportionately affects users with non-US keyboard layouts, who would
be better served by relying on the guest OS to manage this.

In the long term, we would like to deprecate these options. However, we
must do this in three parts. This part allows users to unset the options
and warns users who have them set about the side effects. This change is
intended to be backported. A future change will fully deprecate the
options. Finally, after the deprecation cycle has passed, we can remove
these options in their entirety.

[1] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L6985-L6986
[2] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L7215-L7216

Change-Id: I6b1d719db0537b0f53768dbb00a5b4d01c85ba3a
Related-Bug: #1682020
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api-guide/source Remove the section about extensions from the API concept doc 2017-08-23 14:21:08 +08:00
api-ref/source api-ref: fix key_name note formatting 2017-08-23 10:04:34 -04:00
contrib Merge "changed quantum to neutron in vif-openstack" 2014-03-05 10:45:05 +00:00
devstack Skip test_rebuild_server_in_error_state for cells v1 2017-08-11 12:42:29 -04:00
doc Merge "Remove RamFilter and DiskFilter in default filter" 2017-08-24 18:04:46 +00:00
etc/nova rootwrap.d cleanup mislabeled files 2017-08-01 16:09:18 +10:00
gate move gate hooks to gate/ 2017-01-04 11:05:16 +00:00
nova conf: Allow users to unset 'keymap' options 2017-08-28 09:53:50 +01:00
placement-api-ref/source [placement] Add api-ref for allocation_candidates 2017-08-10 11:26:19 +00:00
plugins/xenserver XenAPI Remove useless files when use os-xenapi lib 2017-01-10 18:06:17 -08:00
releasenotes conf: Allow users to unset 'keymap' options 2017-08-28 09:53:50 +01:00
tools [placement] Make placement_api_docs.py failing 2017-08-10 11:27:13 +00:00
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.testr.conf [placement] Adjust the name of the gabbi tests 2016-09-20 19:14:44 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.rst Workflow documentation is now in infra-manual 2014-12-05 03:30:37 +00:00
HACKING.rst Enable global hacking checks and removed local checks 2017-02-10 15:09:37 +01:00
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bindep.txt List system dependencies for running common tests 2016-08-24 06:49:32 +02:00
requirements.txt Updated from global requirements 2017-08-24 05:55:48 +00:00
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OpenStack Nova

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: