Allow nova to guess device if not passed to attach

partial fix for bug 1004328

Only the xen hypervisor actually respects the device name that
is passed in attach_volume. For other hypervisors it makes much
more sense to automatically generate a unique name.

This patch generates a non-conflicting device name if one is not
passed to attach_volume. It also validates the passed in volume
name to make sure another device isn't already attached there.

A corresponding change to novaclient and horizon will greatly
improve the user experience of attaching a volume.

It moves some common code out of metadata/base so that it can
be used to get a list of block devices. The code was functionally
tested as well and block device name generation works properly.

This adds a new method to the rpcapi to validate a device name. It
also adds server_id to the volumes extension, since it was omitted
by mistake.

The next step is to modify the libvirt driver to match the serial
number of the device to the volume uuid so that the volume can
always be found at /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-<uuid>.

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Change-Id: I0b9454fc50a5c93b4aea38545dcee98f68d7e511

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