Re: [Engine-devel] VM Payload feature
On 01/25/2012 11:09 AM, Dor Laor wrote:
On 01/22/2012 08:42 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
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>>>> The following wiki page contains a description page
of the
>>>> feature.
>>>> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/VMPayload
>>>>
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Currently it seems that there are too many options for it - floppy, cd,
nfs and maybe more. It would be nice to have a single option that works
for all cases. How about creating something like s3 compatible storage
access that the guest can access? If you need boot time access then I'll
recommend cdrom or plain virtio-blk.
I think there are different use cases here:
1. floppy and iso cover the same use case, for similar needs (and behave
the same). this would cover windows sysprep approach and basic
attachment of files
2. http://192.169.192.168 - this would provide compatibility to cloud
approaches iiuc
3. injecting into the file system - this covers various other needs,
like injecting ssh key, and is relevant not only during bootstrap,
should we want to allow editing a guest when it is down to troubleshoot
issues.
so I think all have their place...