[ovirt-users] oVirt and Cloud-Init

[Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Adam Mills <amills at riotgames.com> wrote:
> Hello oVirt Users!
>
> Recent the team that I work on began investigating oVirt as a virtualization
> platform. It is extremely promising, however we have some questions about
> how oVirt does provisioning using Cloud-Init.

Very good!

>
> Specifically the question is: On the wiki the it states "We are most
> interested in using config-drive version 2 [2], which is also in supported
> by OpenStack". Is that currently how Cloud-Init is providing the datasource
> to the machine is via a config-drive being mounted?

Yes. If you start the vm through run-once and specify to use cloud
init (with any configuration specified) a second cdrom drive is
attached automatically containing cloud-init infos. Cloud-init will
read that drive and apply the configuration accordingly.


>
> And the last question: How frequent is too frequent to ask questions to this
> mailing group :D

You can ask as much as you want. I case of excessive mailing, i'll
filter out your request :-P (joking)


Luca


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Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto, http://www.remixtj.net , <lorenzetto.luca at gmail.com>