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[Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Blueprint changed by Russell Bryant:

Whiteboard changed:
+ New blueprints for work under review:
+ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base and
+ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-libvirt
+ 
  this blueprint has been registered  by zadarastorage Corp. they also
  submit code for review,but duo to some reason,it was not accepted at
  essex.
  
  If you wish to update the code and repropose it, we can definitely
  integrate it. --Vish
  
  Duplicate of https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough
  which actually links to the old code.  Quick investigation suggests it's
  an addition to flavor to specify the need for a passthrough and to
  libvirt to map a device safely, along with quite a lot of tests.  Looks
  like there's nothing in there to schedule to a machine with a suitable
  available device - and in the case of network cards not all devices are
  equal, since you have to know what they're plugged in to. -- ijw
  
  the new implemention will add sr-iov as  an instance_specs, so scheduler
  will to the server that supports this. or through  pass a  key-value  to
  -hint param when create instances, this key-value is used for scheduler
  to choose the server which supports this feather.

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support for PCI passthrough and SR-IOV
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-and-sr-iov