machine's Base Image Updatation Facility
-Original Message-
From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 AM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation
Facility
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM
@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility
-Original Message-
From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 AM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base
The JEOS approach does not work well with Windows. Specifically patch
management / gold image management with desktop vms where there is a high
density of vms with the same base image (say Win7). It is more economical
and easier to discard the unpatched / previous image than to maintain
patches on
-Original Message-
From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 AM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Chiradeep Vittal
chiradeep.vit
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Chiradeep Vittal
chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com wrote:
Templates should be immutable --if there is a new version created, then it
is another template.
The api should just take a reference to the new template and not try to
deal with trickiness around updating
Hi Hari,
My comments inline.
On 26-Dec-2012, at 12:18 PM, Harikrishna Patnala wrote:
When a user tries to create VM, following sequence of events happen with
current CloudStack implementation
(1)User / admin adds a template (which is stored on secondary storage)
(2)Template
Templates should be immutable --if there is a new version created, then it
is another template.
The api should just take a reference to the new template and not try to
deal with trickiness around updating templates. That workflow (versioning
templates) is a different ball of wax entirely.
On
What might be interesting is to integrate Cobbler with ACS...
John
On Dec 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Harikrishna Patnala
harikrishna.patn...@citrix.com wrote:
When a user tries to create VM, following sequence of events happen with
current CloudStack implementation
(1)User / admin adds
When a user tries to create VM, following sequence of events happen with
current CloudStack implementation
(1)User / admin adds a template (which is stored on secondary storage)
(2)Template gets downloaded from secondary storage to primary storage
(3)New delta disk is created out
