Wido den Hollander created CLOUDSTACK-451: ---------------------------------------------
Summary: System VMs shouldn't be just Debian based Key: CLOUDSTACK-451 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-451 Project: CloudStack Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Wido den Hollander This one is tied into: CLOUDSTACK-450 Currently our System VMs are a Debian based template which are pretty big. If we abstract the way we talk to the System VM by adding an API it shouldn't matter anymore which distro or OS will be running in there. Some users might want to use a different distribution or build their own homebrew System VM as long as they implement the API. Most System VM tasks can be done in Read-Only mode as well, the filesystem of the System VM doesn't need to be R/W, which would make them more robust. In the end a System VM shouldn't have to be bigger then something like 50MB when stripped down. This issue is here to raise awareness that this has to be addressed at some point. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira