[Sheepdog] Current OpenStack compatibility for sheepdog?

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:27:08 -0000,
Matthew Law wrote:
> 
> 
> What is the current status of sheepdog with regard to using it for
> bootable VM storage in openstack?  I remember work was being proposed on
> this but has it been done?

Yes, it has been done.  IIUC, you can boot VMs from Sheepdog volumes
with EC2 API.  I'm not sure OpenStack API supports booting from
volumes.

> 
> Looking at the documentation online, I think perhaps Sheepdog has a lot
> more features now than are widely publicised.  Can I volunteer to update
> some documentation to put this right? :-)  Perhaps a new walkthrough of
> sheepdog's features is in order?

Great!  Currently, AFAIK, no one is working on that.  It would be
really helpful. :)

Thanks,

Kazutaka