* Joseph J. VLcek (Joseph.Vlcek at Sun.COM) wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * Joseph J VLcek (Joseph.Vlcek at Sun.COM) wrote: >> >>>> Right, we'd have to do something like that (guess). If we knew what the >>>> installed size was going to be for a given set of packages then we could >>>> do better, but I'm not aware of any such mechanism. As for networking, >>>> verifying that the settings will actually 'work' is another hard problem >>>> that I don't think we can really verify (other than making sure that >>>> 'something' is configured for networking). >>>> >>>> >>> Does this support the value of a prototype? >>> >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by this. >> >> > > I simply meant by building a prototype may give us some experience to > know what the likely VM configuration should be but of course that would > be limited to what we are doing and not what others will do.
I see. Yeah, I'm not advocating that we don't do the prototype so I was a bit confused. >>> The more experience we have the more we will know what a valid VM >>> configuration will look like. >>> >> >> Yes and no. A valid VM configuration (as required by this project) is >> dependant on many factors, not all of which are exposed by just doing >> installs inside a VM. >> >> >>> I think we will need to make sure if an error is encountered because >>> of a poorly configured VM that our error reporting indicates as much >>> as possible exactly what failed and why. >>> >> >> Where possible, I agree. Unfortunately there isn't going to be a lot of >> feedback we can get from the booted VM. It's either going to 'shutdown' >> when it's finished (successfully or perhaps not) or it isn't and we'll >> have to declare the install failed after some timeout. There really >> isn't any feedback mechanism to 'hook into' the installation process >> inside the VM. >> > > This is not good. Perhaps more investigation is needed. But shutdown on > success and no feedback otherwise is not good. Well, it's not ideal. We can talk about this in the meeting this morning and I can explain the issue in a bit more detail. Thanks, -- Glenn
