Well perhaps it should be a checkbox on the first zone wizard page, have it show up when the user selects 'use local storage'. it could say 'allow system VMs on local storage'.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Shepherd" <darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:46:32 AM Subject: Re: why system.vm.use.local.storage? I just find it annoying setting up a zone with local storage that I have to turn this setting on. If I have no shared storage, then system VMs won't deploy with out this parameter. It's just seems like a useless setting that might have been added because there is something else in the system that isn't working right. Darren > On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Kelcey Jamison Damage > <kel...@backbonetechnology.com> wrote: > > That's a good point. I know the system VMs are auto created if the system is > aware of their state being either 'Destroyed', 'Expunged'. If the state is > 'Starting', or 'Started'/'Running' then no actions are taken. > > In your scenario, the system VM would still be 'Started' in the database even > though communication is lost to the host, so no automatic action would be > taken. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Darren Shepherd" <darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:47:41 AM > Subject: why system.vm.use.local.storage? > > Why do we have the configuration system.vm.use.local.storage? Why would > somebody care if they systemvm is on local storage? I'm guessing the idea > here is if it's on local storage we can't bring it back in a host failure > situation? But don't we just recreate the systemvm? > > Darren >
