On 03/29/2013 01:35 AM, Greg Padgett wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to propose a feature we've been doing some investigation into, which is to integrate cloud-init support into oVirt.
Cloud-init is used to help provision new Linux systems by setting the hostname, ip, ssh keys, timezone, injecting files, and more. It's used by OpenStack (amongst others) now, and has a lot of features that may be helpful to our users.
Details are still evolving, but for more info please see the wiki page:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cloud-Init_Integration
All feedback is welcome!
a few questions: - are you planning to save the info in the db by field, or as a single "blob"? maybe a better questions is are you going to persist it at all? - i'd be careful before passing any passwords (page mentions root password) - you'd need to not persist it unecrypted, identify it and clean it from all logs, etc. - hostname - should just assume the vm name? - timezone - is that different than the windows one? for a windows guest as well? Thanks, Itamar