Hi Darren, To bring up the system vm's on the hyperv host we need to pass the boot args from host to the systemvm's. To pass the data from hyperv host to systemvm guest we need this method.
Thanks Rajesh Battala -----Original Message----- From: Darren Shepherd [mailto:darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 10:10 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [Proposal] Userdata Support for Hyper-V with KVP Data Exchange On 09/13/2013 08:51 AM, Donal Lafferty wrote: > IIRC, OpenStack puts userdata for Hyper-V guest VMs on a separate volume. > The guest can mount the volume and extract the data. > > However, I suggest we use Hyper-V's KVP Data Exchange mechanism instead. > Doing so keeps volume management and passing userdata cleanly separated. > > Feature Spec at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Userdata+Suppor > t+for+Hyper-V+with+KVP+Data+Exchange > Why does Hyper-V need something specific? Is userdata really hypervisor specific? I though we just put the userdata on the VR? Darren
