[Engine-devel] Fwd: VM Payload feature

[Ayal Baron]

----- Original Message -----
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:54:02PM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > this is intended to cover the cloud forms requirement - please
> > review and make sure it is in the right direction.
> > (going with floppy/iso for this version, rather than IP/injection
> > which could be optional future injection methods).
> > please reply on thread upstream for the discussion.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >    Itamar
> 
> From the Aeolus side I don't think we have a strong opinion which way
> we do this -- it's more up to the Deltacloud guys. Neither approach
> requires the guest agent to be installed, right?

Correct.  Basically we're talking about exposing this either via a CD or via floppy (we'll support both) to the guest in the first phase, so the guest app that needs the data would just have to access the relevant device.

> 
> In any case I'm glad to see this is in the works.
> 
> Take care,
> --Hugh
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [Engine-devel] VM Payload feature
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:41:59 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Oved Ourfalli <ovedo at redhat.com>
> > To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> > 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Continuing the discussion about Aeolus instance data injection to a
> > VM
> > (http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2012-January/000423.html)
> > we propose a new VM Payload feature.
> > 
> > The following wiki page contains a description page of the feature.
> > http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/VMPayload
> > 
> > Please read and review.
> > There are several approaches there, and we wish to head your
> > opinions and thoughts about them.
> > 
> > Once we agree on an approach, we will start designing.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Oved
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> --
> == Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
> == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU                                   ==
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