[Users] oVirt node in a diskless environment

Li, David LiD at cloudshield.com
Tue Jan 17 18:07:15 UTC 2012


Mike,

What is the timeframe we are looking at? In 3 months?  Will this involve Dracut-only changes or much more?
Thanks.

David


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Burns [mailto:mburns at redhat.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:57 AM
>To: Li, David
>Cc: users at ovirt.org
>Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt node in a diskless environment
>
>On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:48 -0800, Li, David wrote:
>> Hi, I am totally new to this. But what I am looking for is to run
>> oVirt node on a diskless x86_64 server board. I have to pxeboot and
>> then mount the initramfs as the final root file systems. No disk or
>> NFS is allowed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this possible with the current release?
>>
>
>Currently, no, but it's an important feature that we're hoping to get in the
>next release or 2.  Our current high level design is posted on the wiki [1].
>There is also some effort going on by the archipel group to make ovirt-node
>stateless as well [2].  We certainly welcome feedback on the node-
>devel at ovirt.org mailing list or directly on the wiki.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike
>
>
>[1] http://ovirt.org/wiki/Node_Stateless
>[2] https://github.com/primalmotion/node
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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