Michael, 

The reason I feel that this change is necessary is make the initial setup 
process for the first time user easier.  Today, I was helping a student that 
was trying to get Tashi up and running.  The configuration file (TashiDefaults) 
has "clustermanger" for about nine different config options, (some for 
usernames, some for a password, and for hosts).  I realize this is an example 
config file and local changes should be done on your local version.  However, 
the defaults, having the same name for multiple options can be confusing.  By 
setting the  "host = localhost", the default config file will allow Tashi to 
startup without issues or modification (on a single machine setup anyways).
If you don't like the change, then I propose to make each example option more 
descriptive(e.g., username = clustermanagerusername, password = 
clustermanagerpassword, host = clustermanagerhostnameorip, or something 
similar) as to not confuse the excited first time user that just wants to get 
Tashi up and running. (It took me a few minutes to figure out what was going 
on...).  We should also update the documentation on the website and explicitly 
say to check the hostname in the config file.

Do we take a poll on this change or what?

Also, 
I think we should change "vmm = Tashi.nodemanager.vmcontrol.Qemu" in both 
TashiDefaults.cfg and NodeManager.cfg since one is currently set to Qemu and 
the other is set to Xen.

Farewell,
Richard




 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stroucken [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r948311 - in /incubator/tashi/trunk/etc:
> NodeManager.cfg TashiDefaults.cfg
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 May 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Author: rgass
> > Date: Wed May 26 04:30:22 2010
> > New Revision: 948311
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=948311&view=rev Log: Setting
> > default clustermanager to localhost.  It was a little confusing with
> so
> > many instances of the word clustermanager in the TashiDefault and
> > Nodemanager file.
> 
> It's an example configuration, and it was named "clustermanager" to let
> people know to adapt it to their local needs. If you want it to be
> localhost, then change it in your local configuration.
> 
> Don't just revert changes without discussion.
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael.

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