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

[Ayal Baron]

----- 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.

> 
> David
> 
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