Re: how to pass kernel parameters to VMs

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Roth
Great ideas -- thanks Shanker! -Steve On 09/04/2013 03:09 AM, Shanker Balan wrote: On 04-Sep-2013, at 2:45 AM, Steve Roth wrote: Hi all, Is there any way when starting a VM to override/pass kernel parameters, such as single? (for single-user mode) Here is how I do it: 1) Open a console

how to pass kernel parameters to VMs

2013-09-03 Thread Steve Roth
Hi all, Is there any way when starting a VM to override/pass kernel parameters, such as single? (for single-user mode) I guess this presumes Linux VMs. We're looking for a way to pass a 'purpose' to a VM (other than its name). One way would appear to be the 'userdata' field in the deploy

Primary storage: does it make sense/is it valid to have it local/unshared?

2013-08-23 Thread Steve Roth
Hi all, I am looking at CloudStack for internal testing. (ie not a production environment -- HA is not required).We have (2) KVM hypervisors in our CS environment. I'm curious if folks have ever placed primary storage directly on the hypervisors (as opposed to a NAS). I understand thi