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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Vish,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Many thanks for u comments, but as you know to support windows sysprep image, we need save the unattend.xml in the CDROM or C:\ device. So, we want to extend the config drive to attach a CDROM device when launch VM.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Anyway, I think attach a CDROM when launch new VM is a common requirement, right?</font><br>
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David Geng <br>
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<ul style="padding-left: 7pt"><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Re: [Openstack] [openstack] config_drive <Image UUID> doesn't create disk.config</font></ul>
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<font size="3" face="serif">On Dec 2, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Jian Hua Geng <</font><a href="mailto:gengjh@cn.ibm.com"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>gengjh@cn.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif">> wrote:</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="sans-serif">I saw the comments in the </font><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1029647"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1029647</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif"> </font><font size="3" face="sans-serif">, can anyone give me more detail introduction of this decision about </font><font size="3" face="serif">why the functionality for using an image id for config drive was removed</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">?</font><font size="3" face="sans-serif"> </font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Just for example for our requirement: We want create a CDROM and write some information in it such as the sysprep info for windows when run vm.<br>
First we need extend the config drive to support both cdrom and file disk device, second we create an iso image in glance which is used to save the sysprep info and share with other user in cloud, then wen can use this config_drive_id to load the iso.<br>
Have any suggestion or solution for this requirement?</font></ul>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Here is one option that you could use. Create a volume instead of an image (or create the volume from the image), snapshot the volume. If you pass the volume snapshot in as a secondary drive in block_device_mapping on boot, then you will get a volume copy of the image. If it is delete_on_terminate=True then the volume will be deleted when you terminate the vm.</font><br>
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