OpenStack Quantum integration feature page for 3.3

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/21/2013 11:13 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
>>> Each network can be provided either by oVirt or by the external provider.
>> >
>> >did we look at our code to understand what it would mean to refactor the
>> >ovirt network code as an external provider as well (doesn't have to be
>> >out of process, just generalize/modularize our code and not have private
>> >cases) - there is work for doing something similar for the pluggable
>> >scheduler, first refactoring the existing scheduling code out as well.
> Currently there hasn't been much work in that direction, however we need to
> consider the fact that Quantum (and many other external providers) will be
> providing us with VM network capability only, so perhaps only this part
> can be done as a "provider".
>
> However, we should take note that current oVirt implementation for VM
> networks is more flexible than that of Quantum, so having it as "provider"
> could limit that flexibility.
>

worth thinking about this a bit - mapping the gaps will probably lead to 
a better picture of how this should look like, expecting external 
providers to actually have more features than ovirt currently has.