Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > > I agree that there is a difference in difficulty of implementation between > > a "quick fix" and a more generic fix. I believe what I'm suggesting is a > > generic fix that will address longer term needs of openstack, and do so in > > a fairly c

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > > > If you don't like the name, thats fine, thats why I suggested it be made > > configurable. Additionally, I want the user to bypass openstack > > completely, and give what looks like garbage to it, but the VM will > > understand. > > > > This is

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
On 6/21/2011 1:09 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > 3. How does one send the configuration drive content? What is the API call where we provide the configuration information and what is the expected format? >>> In another message on this thre

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
> If you don't like the name, thats fine, thats why I suggested it be made > configurable. Additionally, I want the user to bypass openstack > completely, and give what looks like garbage to it, but the VM will > understand. > > This is something Amazon did right in their user data. You can giv

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > Comments inline below. > > On 6/20/2011 1:40 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > >> We're very much looking forward to the new "portable configuration > >> drive" functionality and would like to provide feed

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Comments inline below. On 6/20/2011 1:40 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: >> We're very much looking forward to the new "portable configuration >> drive" functionality and would like to provide feedback. If this is not >> the best forum, please point me to i

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-20 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > We're very much looking forward to the new "portable configuration > drive" functionality and would like to provide feedback. If this is not > the best forum, please point me to it. > > The blueprint > is: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spe

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-20 Thread Christopher MacGown
Hi Thorsten, pvo and I have put together some rough answers to your questions at: http://etherpad.openstack.org/clouddrive To answer your questions in short though; the rough idea for the clouddrive is a small ~64MB ISO formatted volume that would be attached and mounted read-only by the guest in

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Voccio
Thorsten, I'll take a run at these since I wrote the blueprint. It was initially more of a placeholder that was going to get filled out later but Vish bumped the priority before we (Ozone) was ready to move forward. I haven't talked to Chris in regards to his implementation and I haven't seen the

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-18 Thread Jay Pipes
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > We're very much looking forward to the new "portable configuration > drive" functionality and would like to provide feedback. If this is not > the best forum, please point me to it. > > The blueprint > is: https://blueprints.launchpad.

[Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-17 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
We're very much looking forward to the new "portable configuration drive" functionality and would like to provide feedback. If this is not the best forum, please point me to it. The blueprint is: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/configuration-drive We reviewed the initial work in: http