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Marcus Sorensen commented on CLOUDSTACK-4197:
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May want to consider making it a property of service offering. Just a checkbox
on whether or not the deployments of that service offering should have a CD
drive, then you could choose not to have cd drive with any and all templates,
and you wouldn't have to create multiple OS types.
There are also the new 'details' parameters that are being used by the VMware
devs where they choose their template hardware based on 'details' parameters:
register template format=ova hypervisor=vmware name=OL63-26-TMPLT
url=http://reposerver.example.com/6.3-26/ol-6.3-26.ova ispublic=true
isfeatured=true passwordenabled=false details[0].rootDiskController=scsi
details[0].nicAdapter=E1000 details[0].keyboard=us ostypeid=148 zoneid=-1
displaytext=OL63-26-TMPLT
A details parameter specifying whether or not CDROM should be deployed with the
template could be easily added, the work would be primarily on the hypervisor
side to pay attention to those parameters, since whatever you pass in as
details just passes through on the mgmt server.
> Allow creating a VM without virtual CD-ROM drive
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>
> Key: CLOUDSTACK-4197
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4197
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Components: Hypervisor Controller
> Affects Versions: 4.2.0
> Reporter: Kirk Kosinski
> Assignee: Anthony Xu
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: hypervisor, netscaler
> Fix For: 4.4.0
>
>
> Currently all VMs that CloudStack creates will include a virtual CD-ROM
> drive. In some cases, such as with virtual appliances (e.g. NetScaler VPX), a
> CD-ROM drive is not needed or even unsupported. It would be useful if
> CloudStack could deploy a VM without a CD-ROM drive to allow such cases.
> Perhaps such functionality could be added using new OS Types, for example:
> Other - No CD-ROM (32-bit)
> Other - No CD-ROM (64-bit)
> Other PV - No CD-ROM (32-bit)
> Other PV - No CD-ROM (64-bit)
> Or maybe it could be added on a per VM or per template basis with a new
> configuration parameter. This might be more flexible since some customers
> might want to use arbitrary OS types for VMs with no CD-ROM.
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