<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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        Eric Windisch
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      <p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM,
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              <div>On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Andrew Bogott wrote:</div>
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                  <div>I'm reviving this ancient thread to ask: Will
                    there be a code summit session</div>
                  <div>about this? And/or are there plans to start
                    developing a standard set of</div>
                  <div>guest agents for Folsom?</div>
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              <div><a href="http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/100" target="_blank">http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/100</a></div>
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