you must test coreos on x86 first to make sure it works to you Alex Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:
>I've been kicking around the idea of adding another request type to >VMMDev that exposes an opaque chunk of data provided by the user. This >is intended to allow users to pass configuration data to guests which >support reading from this interface. > >At CoreOS, we are working on a project called Ignition [1], which >handles machine provisioning tasks (setting up filesystems, creating >users, enabling services, etc.). In order to support VirtualBox, we need >a way for users to pass their Ignition config to the CoreOS Linux guest >(ideally via the hypervisor). We do this via GuestVariables on VMware >and the firmware configuration device on QEMU. I couldn't find anything >in VirtualBox which would allow us similar functionality. > >I'd like to add an extra request handler to expose just this piece of >information. I had considered making a much more general mechanism, >similar to GuestVariables, but I'd prefer to keep things simple and get >the developers' feedback before I started work. What do you all think? > >-Alex > >[1]: https://coreos.com/ignition > >_______________________________________________ >vbox-dev mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
