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Pass the VM Instance ID to Neutron when a VM is started

Registered by Kyle Mestery

This is a small change in Nova's Neutron API to pass the Instance ID when a VM instance is launched to Neutron, using the port binding extensions. This allows for Neutron plugins to acquire additional meta information for the VM for display purposes. The change is made in the allocate_for_instance() API in nova/network/quantumv2/api.py.

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If you are still working on this, please re-submit via nova-specs. If not, please mark as obsolete, and add a quick comment to describe why. --johnthetubaguy (20th April 2014)

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