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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Clint Walsh <Clinton.Walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Resize should work for kvm as well, but you will need hostnames to resolve properly and passwordless ssh access between your  compute hosts.
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> Does 'hostnames'  mean that of the VM or the compute nodes or both?

compute nodes

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> Also what is the reason for compute host access direct to other compute hosts?

Direct access is to copy the vm file across. This could be modified to store the file in a common location (like glance) but there are some issues related to raw disks that need to be solved.  There is a bp about this:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/resize-no-raw

> 
> Resize would be very useful for our tenants.
> 
> ---
> Clint Walsh
> NeCTAR Research Cloud Support
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> On 6 December 2012 05:39, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:15 AM, Marco CONSONNI <mcocmo62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Not sure, but it seems like this feature is available for XenServer, only http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2011-10/msg00473.html
>> 
>> Does anybody know more?
>