Hi PL, Good to hear from you!
If you've a use-case where templates are created/hosted separately and may change often, could your use-case work by extending the direct-download feature for XenServer? Here are some links for the KVM support: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/templates.html#bypassing-secondary-storage-for-kvm-templates https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Bypass+Secondary+Storage+%28Direct+Download%29+on+KVM https://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-feature-first-look-direct-download-agnostic-of-the-storage-provider/ Regards. ________________________________ From: Pierre-Luc Dion <pdion...@apache.org> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 20:06 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; Serge Nassar <snas...@cloud.ca>; Siddhartha Kattoju <skatt...@cloud.ca> Subject: [PROPOSAL] boot from network template on XenServer Hi guys, it's been a while! I'd like to know what would be the path to follow within the community to submit a feature into cloudstack, but also to review our proposal on offering a template that boots from the network. Basic idea, is that there is some workload, specially for XenDesktop where desktop images are hosted on a PVS server, to ease support of that workload in cloudstack, it kind of make sense that a Instance would boot from the network and load is root volume image from the PVS server. So what we recently tried in a VPC model, is to add a configuration at the VPC level to define the IP address of a TFTP server so the DHCP of the VR push the next_server ip defined in the VPC config, then we create a template where the URL is to boot file path on the tftp server that can reside outside of a vpc. At the VM creation using this template, the boot order of the instance on XenServer is to boot from the network and the root volume created is an empty volume that can be used as ephemeral or storage for caching. Cheers, rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK @shapeblue
