vishvananda at gmail
May 9, 2012, 5:13 PM
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Re: questions on the dynamic loading of virt drivers in nova
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No this is mostly just legacy stuff that was never refactored.
Vish
On May 9, 2012 3:33 PM, "Sean Dague" <sdague [at] linux> wrote:
> I'm familiarizing myself with the nova code and trying to reconcile that
> while there is dynamic class based loading in ComputeManager using
> import_utils in __init__() there is also a defaulting to the
> nova.virt.connection.get_**connection function.
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> That's actually got a big if / else statement of string literals of known
> virt drivers, and then loads specific virt drivers from there.
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> Is there a reason for both approaches? Can we refactor to a point where we
> don't need need of a common file with driver specific imports and string
> literals? Is there a reason not to?
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> Thanks,
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> -Sean
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> Sean Dague
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> email: sdague [at] linux
> alt-email: sldague [at] us
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