Re: [Engine-devel] Requirements for Aeolus instance data injection.

----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:10 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 08:14 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote: > > > > > Just to provide some more background info: for DMTF CIMI, I will be > > pusing to standardize the EC2 approach, since it is the only one > > that > > properly decouples the VM from the infrastructure; IOW, the > > standard > > will hopefully mandate that each instance can access a web server > > at > > http://169.254.169.254/ from which it can get the user data. > > To add more background^2: OVF has the notion of an 'activation > engine', > which includes passing some XML to the VM via a CD-ROM. Depending on > where OVF support is on the ovirt roadmap, we could support user data > injection that way. Unfortunately oVirt modified ovirt in ways that make it not really usable as an API for passing to the hypervisor.