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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?<br>
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-Andrew<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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<div>-- <br>
Eric Windisch
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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>
<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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