[Engine-devel] VM Payload feature

[Itamar Heim]

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...