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[Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I presume you're looking for more than SSH offers.  What are the missing
features you need?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  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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