Just to add some other information. There is a PR to externalize system VMs templates. Then, administrators would be able to customize system VMs template as they do with virtual router.
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2275 On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Rohit vavaldas <rohitvaval...@gmail.com> wrote: > Got it. Thanks Daan. > > > Best, > Rohit Vavaldas > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 4:58 AM Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > H Rohit, > > > > In the present and prior versions the systemVM template is only upgraded > on > > upgrade of the management server. A suitable template had to be > registered > > with a specified name before the upgrade and if it wasn't or it had the > > wrong attributes it won't be registered as the current system template. > The > > upgrade of routers is a separate action that is up to the discretion of > the > > admin of the network that uses it. It is not the intention to automate it > > unless we can find a good optional procedure. I can imagine a network > > administrator being more worried about being up to date than about > uptime. > > For such cases it would make sense to automate further. > > > > in summary; the upgrade of the template and of the VRs are two different > > procedures. > > > > regards, > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Rohit vavaldas <rohitvaval...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Daan, > > > > > > Can you suggest me on how the new API should handle the virtual router? > > > As the old router is not able to recognize upgraded system VM. Should a > > new > > > VR be created and replace the old one within this API call? > > > Can you brief me on how the version update procedure which upgrades > with > > > System VMs, be in common ground with upgrade process of individual > > > instances? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rohit Vavaldas > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Daan Hoogland < > daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey Rohit, nice to see you here. What you should be looking at is > > mostly > > > > the register template API and service calls and then the update > version > > > > code for the last version that required an upgrade. Off the top of my > > > head > > > > it is in the class Upgrade410to411.java (don't kill me if I'm off by > a > > > few > > > > chars) next to that there is ofcourse the upgrade process of the > > > individual > > > > instances of system VMs. A whole other story, part of which you can > > find > > > in > > > > the discuss thread [1] and a proposal [2] on the mailing list > > arcghives. > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6116f1d77cc2272f75f844a22597b2 > > > > 96aa1f84f7acbd2a4f82127743@%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E > > > > [2] > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fe347ccf41073def042d35b51ce600 > > > > 7a0f3fe898690f5328e40143e1@%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E > > > > > > > > please feel free to inquire further ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Rohit vavaldas < > > rohitvaval...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am Rohit Vavaldas, a graduate student pursuing my masters in > > computer > > > > > science at the University of Oklahoma. I am very much interested to > > > work > > > > on > > > > > CloudStack and excited to participate in GSoC. I am interested to > > work > > > on > > > > > the issue to create an API driven SystemVM upgrade. The current > flow > > of > > > > > updating system VM template is to first register newer version of > > > system > > > > VM > > > > > template using 'registertemplate' API and then invoke > > 'preparetemplate' > > > > on > > > > > the above-registered template. So, part of this, what should I be > > > looking > > > > > out for to develop this API and also can I please get some more > > > > information > > > > > in this regard? > > > > > > > > > > Link to the issue: > > > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-10262 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks and Regards > > > > > Rohit Vavaldas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Daan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks and Regards > > > Rohit Vavaldas > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Daan > > > -- Rafael Weingärtner
