yes, hp supports user writable images, last I checked. https://www.hpcloud.com/products/cloud-compute
-A On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Paul Baclace <[email protected]> wrote: > I built Whirr from trunk svn r1373566. The machine running whirr will be > ubuntu 12.04 (I hope that will work.) The spawned cluster nodes can be > ubuntu 10.04, but I thought CDH 4.0.1 specified that it worked with 12.04. > > Normally, I prepare a custom os image (based on a whirr cluster) to speed up > provisioning. Will that work on HPCloud? > > > Paul > > > On 20120815 17:59 , Adrian Cole wrote: >> >> The problem is that 10.04 is literally hardcoded. Before the above patch, >> there's no way to change that without knowing IDs. >> On Aug 15, 2012 5:57 PM, "Andrew Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ...and you don't actually have to specify the OS stuff at all. Just >>> whirr.hardware-min-ram=1024 or whatever, and it'll automatically pick an >>> Ubuntu 10.04 image for you. >>> >>> A. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected] >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> You'll actually have to do some manual tweaks due to HP Cloud public IPs >>>> not having reverse-resolvable IP addresses - you'll need to manually go >>>> onto each of your hosts and change any references to hostnames they put >>> >>> in >>>> >>>> there to the IP instead. >>>> >>>> A. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, Paul. >>>>> >>>>> Here's easiest way >>>>> >>>>> Apply latest patch here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-593 >>>>> >>>>> Set >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> whirr.template=osFamily=UBUNTU,osVersionMatches=12.04,os64Bit=true,minRam=1024 >>>>> >>>>> Should be good. If works, ping the issue and I can help commit it >>>>> tonight. >>>>> >>>>> -A >>>>> On Aug 15, 2012 5:45 PM, "Paul Baclace" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I need to get Whirr 0.8.0 running on HPCloud *today* so I can help >>>>> >>>>> people >>>>>> >>>>>> generate >>>>>> clusters for the ACM local chapter (sfbayacm.org) hackathon on Aug. >>> >>> 18 >>>>>> >>>>>> sponsored in part by HPCloud. >>>>>> >>>>>> Because of WHIRR-593, I built Whirr from trunk. >>>>>> >>>>>> My plan is to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise, 64-bit. >>>>>> >>>>>> whirr.provider=hpcloud-compute >>>>>> >>>>>> How does one find the possible values for: >>>>>> >>>>>> whirr.image-id // I assume numbers seen in HP web console work here >>>>>> whirr.hardware-id // use number from openstack or names like >>>>>> standard.medium ? >>>>>> whirr.location-id // what is proper form here? >>>>>> >>>>>> and any other property settings I need to know about for HPCloud? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >
