[Engine-devel] Requirements for Aeolus instance data injection.
David Lutterkort
lutter at redhat.com
Fri Jan 13 16:23:17 UTC 2012
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 04:07 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote:
>
> ----- 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.
I don't understand.
David
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