Alok Aggarwal wrote:
> I have posted the first draft of the Bootable AI Image
> functional specification at -
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> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Bootable_AI_Image/bootable.ai.spec.txt
>
>
>
> Please take a look and provide feedback by COB, Thursday
> July 30th.
>
> Thanks,
> Alok
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Hey Alok,
Here is my feedback. It is mostly related to the usability of the
Bootable AI Client by VMC.
Joe
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Issue 1:
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3.1 Booting an AI image from media
The VMC project had planned that the default would be
what you list as:
* Boot from media and invoke AI with a default manifest
As we discussed it will be possible to modify the image to
set this choice as the default for VMC.
This task has not been planned as part of the VMC work. The
method to modify the default GRUB selection will be needed.
Can I ask you to provide a script that will do this that
the VMC can use? Or maybe just helping us with this task...
Issue 2:
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3.3 live-fs-root SMF service refactoring
and
3.4 auto-installer service refactoring
Can you please elaborate a bit on what will be done.
Issue 3:
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Just to clearify: For VMC providing a modified AI manifest would
require that manifest to be built into the image. It will not
be possible for the user to select a manifest at boot time as
control of the boot process will be in a headless virtual machine.
So the default manifest should be suited to the needs of the VMC
project. The current AI default manifest will meet these needs.
Issue 4:
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5.2 Scenario Two
This will require the user to select a non-default GRUB option
for x86 boot correct?
The VMC project requires this scenario to not exect any user
input, including selecting of an optional GRUB menu.
See my comments at "Issue 1" above.
Issue 5:
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Status and Observability
How will the bootable AI client provide progress status and
observability into possible failures, specifically to the VMC?
Issue 6:
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The VMC requires the Bootable AI Client to "shutdown" the system
after the install, for both successful installation and installs
the produced failures.
