tripleo-heat-templates/releasenotes/notes/nova_file_backed_memory_and_memory_backing_dir_support_for_qemu-accfda4919b3d9dd.yaml
Martin Schuppert 654961a480 Add nova file_backed_memory and memory_backing_dir support for qemu.conf
The libvirt driver now allows utilizing file backed memory for qemu/KVM
virtual machines, via a new configuration attribute
``[libvirt]/file_backed_memory``, defaulting to 0 (disabled).

``[libvirt]/file_backed_memory`` specifies the available capacity in MiB
for file backed memory, at the directory configured for
``memory_backing_dir`` in libvirt's ``qemu.conf``. When enabled, the
libvirt driver will report the configured value for the total memory
capacity of the node, and will report used memory as the sum of all
configured guest memory.

Running Nova with file_backed_memory requires libvirt version 4.0.0 and
qemu version 2.6.0

This introduces parameters QemuMemoryBackingDir and NovaLibvirtFileBackedMemory

Resolves-Bug: 1793687
Depends-On: I0d9eb21fcab01266e501b7fc63c5b2bbb244956a

Change-Id: I47e2f92fb2ed3e66d4bf31814eac9090382ef4e1
2018-09-26 15:14:08 +02:00

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features:
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Add nova file_backed_memory and memory_backing_dir support for qemu.conf
The libvirt driver now allows utilizing file backed memory for qemu/KVM
virtual machines, via a new configuration attribute
``[libvirt]/file_backed_memory``, defaulting to 0 (disabled).
``[libvirt]/file_backed_memory`` specifies the available capacity in MiB
for file backed memory, at the directory configured for
``memory_backing_dir`` in libvirt's ``qemu.conf``. When enabled, the
libvirt driver will report the configured value for the total memory
capacity of the node, and will report used memory as the sum of all
configured guest memory.
Running Nova with file_backed_memory requires libvirt version 4.0.0 and
qemu version 2.6.0