They do, but there's also an iso that is mounted with various extra software. It's a way of updating the system vm.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Bryan Whitehead <dri...@megahappy.net>wrote: > So as of 4.0 systemvm's don't live on secondary storage? in 3.0.2 > you'd install the systemvm's to the secondary storage... > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The cloud-agent runs on the hosts, and is responsible for > > starting/running both system vms and guest instances. All run on the > > hosts, and the agent is how we communicate/control the host. When > > cloud-agent starts a system vm on the host, it needs the system vm iso > > to connect to it. > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Donal Lafferty > > <donal.laffe...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> Pardon the naïve question, but if you're only installing the > cloud-agent, why do you need cloud-system-iso? Doesn't cloud-agent operate > independently of the system VMs? > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] > >> Sent: 31 October 2012 9:43 AM > >> To: <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > >> Subject: SystemVM ISO is not installed with 4.0 on Ubuntu or Debian > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just did a fresh CloudStack 4.0 installation from the Debian packages > we have and I found a dependency issue. > >> > >> cloud-agent does not depend on cloud-system-iso, thus it doesn't get > installed. > >> > >> This took me about 2 hours to figure out why my System VMs weren't > working properly. > >> > >> I'll push a fix for this to the master branch, but this will be broken > in the 4.0 release. > >> > >> When using apt to install the Agent from the Debian repo they will have > to manually install the system-iso package. > >> > >> I'm thinking about adding this dependency to the packages on > cloudstack.apt-get.eu to prevent this from happening to new users. > >> > >> Wido >
