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Josh Thompson closed VCL-66.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Fix Version/s: (was: 2.4)
> Reservations for newly created images may be assigned to management nodes or
> computers on which the image can't run
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> Key: VCL-66
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-66
> Project: VCL
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: database, web gui (frontend)
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Reporter: Andy Kurth
> Priority: Minor
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> After a user creates a new image, that user can create a reservation for the
> image without having to configure any groups or mappings. This is a good
> thing. The image is automatically configured to be a member of the
> 'newimages-<username>-<user id>' group. The 'newimages*' image groups are
> mapped to the 'newimages' computer group. As a result, reservations for new
> images will be assigned computers in the newimages computer group.
> Although this usually works fine, the automatic mapping to the fixed computer
> group could result in an image failing to load because the computers in the
> group may contain different hardware than the image was created on.
> A different management node may also be assigned than the one the image was
> created on. This could also result in an image failing to load if the
> management node is running different code which doesn't support the image or
> configured in a way which doesn't support the new image. This may also cause
> wasted image repository space if the user quickly discards the image because
> the image would be copied to additional management nodes.
> This issue was created after encountering a limitation while I was creating
> the initial Vista base image. I needed to allow other users to create
> derivative image from the base image but wanted all derivative images to run
> from the same management node. At the time, only 1 management node fully
> supported the Vista code and code updates were being made frequently as the
> bugs were worked out. Because of this issue, other users' Vista images would
> attempt to load on other management nodes and fail.
> It may be beneficial to at least limit new images to the same management node
> that they were created on until specific image grouping is configured for the
> image. It would be much more difficult to have new images only run on the
> same hardware.
> One possibility may be to have a management node to module mapping. As more
> and more components are modularized, we could achieve greater flexibility if
> management nodes could be configured to support certain modules. In this
> example, I would have simply had to map the Vista module to the management
> node which supported the code and added some computers to the newimages
> computer group.
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