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nova package

change default networking to virtio in Ubuntu packaging

Bug #904480 reported by Scott Moser
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Bug Description

rtl8139 is the default network adapter provided in openstack instances.

That is very slow compared to virtio. The only reason you would want it would be for backwards compatibility.

I believe that right now is the time to change that to virtio. If we wait until after 12.04, we may, in 14.04 actually have a large corpus of users who would have broken images by changing that default. Right now there are comparably a very small number of users/amis that would not support virtio.

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote :

When people toll Windows AMI's, do they tend to include the drivers for virtio?

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote :

s/toll/roll/

Changed in nova (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 904480] Re: change default networking to virtio in Ubuntu packaging

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Dave Walker wrote:

> When people toll Windows AMI's, do they tend to include the drivers for
> virtio?

I honestly don't know much about windows. I know that virtio drivers are
available for windows, and I actually believe you can get them signed by
Canonical. google is failing me now, though.

I think temporary pain in getting virtio drivers for windows is more than
overcome by not having to make this change later and breaking existing
amis.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nova - 2012.1~e2-0ubuntu1

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nova (2012.1~e2-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New usptream release. Fixes the following bugs:
    (LP: #871278, #848643, #859679, #83199)
  * debian/nova-console.install: Fix empty package.
  * debian/patches, debian/pydist-overrides: Cleaner way
    of disabling unwanted python-dependencies.
  * debian/control:
    - Suggest python-keystone. (LP: #901881)
    - Update build dependencies.
  * debian/nova.conf: Use virtio networking by default.
    (LP: #904480)
  * debian/fix-traversal-via-image-register.patch: Dropped
    fixed upstream.
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:03:55 -0500

Changed in nova (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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