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I have been planning to put together a blueprint proposal for an agent component leveraging some of the stuff that enStratus has done with agents. The idea would be for a guest agent that is fully secure and extensible for any kind of management needs.

Thoughts on combining the efforts?

-George

On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Chris Behrens wrote:

> Jay,
> 
> It sounds like you understand it. :)  The guest agent will be required to configure the VM's network settings and root password, etc.  I share your thoughts.  It feels like it should be a part of nova to me as well.
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> 
>> If this guest agent code is going to be required for certain features
>> in Nova's Cactus release (at least, XenServer features), then
>> shouldn't it be in Nova?
>> 
>> Or am I not understanding what the guest agent code does?
>> 
>> -jay
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>>> Paul Voccio wrote:
>>>> So the question I want to pose to the community is if they are
>>>> interested in the code, where should it go and how should we move
>>>> forward on extending it?
>>> 
>>> I think it's always interesting to publish the code. I'm not convinced
>>> of the value of shipping it inside Nova though.
>>> 
>>> I'm not in the POC so it's not my job to define what should be
>>> considered "Openstack core" and what should not, but "compatible guest
>>> agents" IMO typically warrant their own project...
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
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