On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:36 AM, George Reese wrote: > > > It's a mistake to send OpenStack pursuing a flaw in Cloud Servers.
Boy... Isn't this a rat hole that I've helped us go down. I am completely "pro-agent" (well, more agnostic). I would certainly hope that the api for openstack allows for communication to an in-instance agent, but that in-instance agent could be provided by the cloud-provider or the instance launcher. The reason I piped up, and the reason I think there is some misunderstanding is (from Ed): > Again, you seem to have missed my point. OpenStack is *not* working on > this. This is an OpenStack mailing list. The original mail says: | Subject: [Openstack] OS API server password generation | | We created a blueprint on adding support for password generation when | creating servers. This is needed | for Openstack API/Cloud Servers API v1.0 parity. | .. | https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/openstack-api-server-passwords | http://etherpad.openstack.org/openstack-api-server-passwords So, I'm sure you can understand how people thought this was about an openstack api specifically for setting server passwords. I am against that. I think it is important to have a mechanism in the openstack api to pass information to the guest out of band. that information may be read by an agent, it may be read by the android emulator running inside running angry birds. My point is that it should not be a.) "agent" specific b.) password specific The original mail surely seemed to indicate that what was being designed, on the openstack mailing list, was both a and b. If you read further on and go to the etherpad, it appears that the idea is to use the xen api to push data to the guest, and have an in-instance agent read it from there. This is all very fine to me, and actually mostly in line with what I suggested in my other mail. Scott _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp