> -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Zhang [mailto:frank.zh...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 11:57 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Baremetal thoughts > > > > So the immediate project that jumps to mind is Cobbler, but there > > > are licensing issues with inclusion. > > > Razor itself is nice and looks fascinating, but it boots a Linux > > > image for initial inventory - is that a problem? (Same problem as > > > PING) > > > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-razor-a-next-generation-provi > > > si oning-solution/ I suppose we could not ship the bootable image, > > > but that seems a bit broken.
Yes Razor is apache2, and we expect to open source Razor image soon. > > I think it is more or less inevitable that the user/cloud installer > > has to do a bit more then just run "install my cloud on this cluster". > > However, I do not see this an an issue for the project. This is where > > "integrators" can differentiate themselves. What the project should > > provide is god documentation about the setup, and the things that need > > to be in the rudimentary PXE boot image that gets shipped to the box > > on which the cloud node is to be installed. This doc should also > > contain the configuration of the rudimentary image. > > > > Regardless of the licensing issue, I don't think the project would > > want to ship such a rudimentary image. The Razor image build process will be opensource and documented to allow users to build their own custom image based on tinycore Linux, so it will be more flexible than the current solution which is here's the ISO file. Thanks, Nan
