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On 13/11/15 10:08, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> A rather significant number of people deploy OpenStack for the first time
> using VMs rather than bare metal. Several cycles ago, we decided to provide
> some basic notes (e.g., disable MAC address filtering and/or enable
> promiscuous mode depending on the hypervisor) rather than developing
> step-by-step instructions for those using VMs for the following reasons:
> 
> 1) Given our proactive approach of updating and testing the installation
> content for each release, we would need additional resources to reasonably
> test it using VMs.
> 2) We would need additional resources to maintain the VM deployment content
> including bug triage.
> 3) Supporting one hypervisor means requests to support additional
> hypervisors, each requiring additional resources.
> 4) Not sure how to handle potential license incompatibilities.
> 5) Most hypervisors use GUIs and screen shots don't translate.
> 
> A patch currently resides in the queue [1] that provides step-by-step
> instructions for deploying VMs using VirtualBox. We need to discuss the
> possibility of merging this patch into the installation guide and how to
> address these (and potentially other) issues around it.
> 

Yeah, I think this sets a bad precedent, but I'm interested to see what the Install Guide team determines before I -2 this.

L

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Lana Brindley
Technical Writer
Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
http://lanabrindley.com
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