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[Brooks Kaminski <bhkaminski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Windows guests within a XenServer environment currently do not have the
ability to properly have ConfigDrive attached unless the environment has
its nova.conf set up as:

config_drive_format=vfat

This issue ultimately results from this value being defaulted to ISO9660
(CDFS) and the VBD object being used for it being a disk (the
nova.virt.xenapi.vm_utils.create_vbd default).  After testing, While the
VBD is attached without issue and in the proper stateI was unable to get
this drive to show up within Windows at all.  I was unable to see the
drive detected within the GUI, or within Windows Powershell.

This can be addressed by detecting the nova.conf configuration setting,
and adjusting the VBD attach accordingly.  I will be submitting a
follow-up commit shortly.

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: xenserver

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1490238

Title:
  Configdrive fails to properly display within Windows Guest (Xenapi)

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  New

Bug description:
  Windows guests within a XenServer environment currently do not have
  the ability to properly have ConfigDrive attached unless the
  environment has its nova.conf set up as:

  config_drive_format=vfat

  This issue ultimately results from this value being defaulted to
  ISO9660 (CDFS) and the VBD object being used for it being a disk (the
  nova.virt.xenapi.vm_utils.create_vbd default).  After testing, While
  the VBD is attached without issue and in the proper stateI was unable
  to get this drive to show up within Windows at all.  I was unable to
  see the drive detected within the GUI, or within Windows Powershell.

  This can be addressed by detecting the nova.conf configuration
  setting, and adjusting the VBD attach accordingly.  I will be
  submitting a follow-up commit shortly.

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