Yes, baremetal implies not inside a system vm, so it could run in a VM whose lifecycle is not controlled by CloudStack.
On 3/25/13 1:44 PM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:54:09PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: >> To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be >>made optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. >> I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposal is >>here: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/clnVAQ >> > >+1 to this proposal. Just to confirm one thing though... when you say >"run alternately on baremetal", I assume you actually mean that the >services in question would run within an OS (baremetal or virtual) >outside the control domain of the CS management server. Correct?