<div>I presume you're looking for more than SSH offers. What are the missing features you need?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Bogott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abogott@wikimedia.org">abogott@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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What I crave is a communication channel between nova and running
instances. There was discussion at some point about extending the
metadata api to have this ability.<br>
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Having a solid config drive standard seems like a good idea, but it
won't get me run-time interaction, will it?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 4/10/12 11:40 AM, Eric Windisch wrote:
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<div><span style="font-size:12px">I maintain my stance from
pre-Diablo, that the configuration drive should be exported as
a virtual cdrom device with an ISO9660 filesystem. </span><span style="font-size:12px">We can generate the filesystem
without root access and the filesystem is well-supported.
Additionally, it lacks the patent-related issues associated
with the other many-platform filesystems (i.e. FAT).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px">Also, doing the above happens
to make the configuration-drive surprisingly similar to the
optional sub-feature of OVF. I'm not sure what priority OVF is
for Nova (it is a low priority for me), but it might be worth
considering, especially since Glance seems to advertise some
OVF support.</span></div>
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<p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM,
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<div>I'm reviving this ancient thread to ask: Will
there be a code summit session</div>
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