openstack-nova defaults in Fedora 17

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 12:04 -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 02/20/2012 11:30 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 02/20/2012 03:51 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >>   4) 'rpc_backend=nova.rpc.impl_qpid' is also the default now? I think 
> >>       we had some debate about whether we should require any of the 
> >>       messaging libs by default? Did we come to a conclusion? My 
> >>       instinct it to require the default lib only
> > 
> > I discussed that with Russell who implemented the Qpid support,
> > and he made the point that you might not even want to run the
> > qpid broker on the same host as the nova services.
> > I intentionally didn't depend on an amqp server for now.
> 
> Right, I don't think it makes sense to depend on qpid-cpp-server or
> rabbitmq-server at all.  I think Mark was referring to the dependencies
> on the client libs: python-qpid, python-kombu, python-carrot.  Depending
> on only python-qpid out of those is fine with me.

Cool, that makes sense. I'd actually forgotten about the distinction
between the libs and the server.

> We should document how to switch back to rabbitmq/kombu, though since
> there are so many docs out there referring to that configuration.

Yep.

Cheers,
Mark.