On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/09/2014 04:19 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > Ah. OK. Confirmed. Seems to be a Horizon bug. Best is if you open a > > support ticket. > > Will do. > > >> P.S: I still don't get what's the use of the config drive in the HP > >> cloud context. Could you explain? > > > > Do we support config drive? In general, config drive is OpenStack's > > equivalent of Amazon's EC2 metadata service. It's used to provide > > instance information (instance name, IP address, SSH key aso) to the > > instance though a mountable (read-only CDROM) drive but the image needs > > to support it. cloud-init's support of config drive is very limited and > > IIRC only supports static networking configuration at the moment > > (Rackspace needs this because they use static IPs in their environment > > hence the instance can't get to the EC2 metadata service without > > configuring the network first). > > > > ...Juerg > > Probably I didn't ask correctly... > > What's the /dev/vdb that is automatically mounted in /mnt for?
It's just an ephemeral non-persistent disk. Empty scratch storage that is deleted when you delete the instance. ...Juerg > Thomas >
