[Engine-devel] Requirements for Aeolus instance data injection.
David Lutterkort
lutter at redhat.com
Thu Jan 12 22:42:39 UTC 2012
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.
David
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