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[Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I crave is a communication channel between nova and running 
instances.  There was discussion at some point about extending the 
metadata api to have this ability.

Having a solid config drive standard seems like a good idea, but it 
won't get me run-time interaction, will it?

-Andrew

On 4/10/12 11:40 AM, Eric Windisch wrote:
> I maintain my stance from pre-Diablo, that the configuration drive 
> should be exported as a virtual cdrom device with an ISO9660 
> filesystem. We can generate the filesystem without root access and the 
> filesystem is well-supported.  Additionally, it lacks the 
> patent-related issues associated with the other many-platform 
> filesystems (i.e. FAT).
>
> Also, doing the above happens to make the configuration-drive 
> surprisingly similar to the optional sub-feature of OVF. I'm not sure 
> what priority OVF is for Nova (it is a low priority for me), but it 
> might be worth considering, especially since Glance seems to advertise 
> some OVF support.
>
> --
> Eric Windisch
>
> On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Scott Moser wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> >
> > > I'm reviving this ancient thread to ask: Will there be a code summit 
> > > session
> > > about this? And/or are there plans to start developing a standard set of
> > > guest agents for Folsom?
> >
> > http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/100
> >
> >
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