<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">Hi folks,</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">I would add the pxe boot capability to Nova/libvirt and Horizon too.</span><div>
<font color="#000000" face="Menlo, Consolas, Lucida Console, DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">Currently, compute instances must be booted from images (or snapshots) stored in Glance or volumes stored in Cinder.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Menlo, Consolas, Lucida Console, DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">Our idea (as you can find below) is already described there [1] [2] and "aims to provide a design for booting compute instances from a PXE boot server, i.e. bypassing the image/snapshot/volume requirement."</span></font><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">There is already a open blueprint but I would want to register a new one because it has no update since 2013.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(54,82,93);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(54,82,93);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">What do you think?</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<br>Thanks beforehand<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Lucida Console','DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:15.600000381469727px">Angelo</span><br></div></div>