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line-height: 15.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">I would add the pxe boot capability to Nova/libvirt and
Horizon too.</span>
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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>
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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
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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:
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<a
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font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">https://blueprints.launchpad.<wbr>net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-<wbr>vm-boot-pxe</a><br
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<a
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font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">https://wiki.openstack.org/<wbr>wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-<wbr>instance</a><br
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Thanks beforehand<br>
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Angelo<br>
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Angelo Matarazzo
DEK Technologies
Via dei Castelli Romani, 22
00040 Pomezia (Roma)
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:angelo.matarazzo@dektech.com.au">angelo.matarazzo@dektech.com.au</a>
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