On 11/25/2014 05:33 PM, Angelo Matarazzo wrote: > > Hi all, > my team and I are working on pxe boot feature very similar to the > "Discless VM" one in Active blueprint list[1] > The blueprint [2] is no longer active and we created a new spec [3][4]. > > Nova core reviewers commented our spec and the first and the most > important objection is that there is not a compelling reason to provide > this kind of feature : booting from network. Why not just work with the Ironic project, who already have OpenStack code to deal with PXE booting, and already does it in a way that's driven by nova. > Aside from the specific implementation, I think that some members of > TelcoWorkingGroup could be interested in and provide a use case. > I would also like to add this item to the agenda of next meeting > > Any thought? > > Best regards, > Angelo > > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TelcoWorkingGroup#Active_Blueprints > [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe > [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/boot-order-for-instance > [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/133254/ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >