[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Partition layout of image used in nova bare-metal

Devananda van der Veen devananda.vdv at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 18:57:41 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Taurus Cheung <Taurus.Cheung at harmonicinc.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova
> bare-metal. In current design, nova bare-metal would first write a
> partition layout of root partition and swap partition, then write the image
> to root partition. It seems that the logic assumes there's no partition
> table inside the image.
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> Without code change, does nova bare-metal support writing image with
> partition table embedded in it?
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No. This isn't currently supported by the baremetal driver.

It is in the plans for Ironic as part of supporting Windows images, though
it could be used for other OS's as well.
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/windows-disk-image-support

-Devananda
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