On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:26:39PM +0100, Todd Deshane wrote: > Hi Ewan, > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Ewan Mellor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It should always be possible to run Nova in a virtual appliance. > > > > Note that I'm not suggesting that Nova _must_ run in a virtual appliance. > > As > > I understand it, the normal deployment model for SUSE Xen or KVM would be to > > have a "full" control domain with all the control software in it, as opposed > > to the "appliance" or "disaggregated" model that we're aiming for with > > Xen Cloud Platform and XenServer. > > > > Does anyone object to this? Can we adopt this as a long-term design goal? > > Has anyone built a OpenStack virtual appliance that you know of? I was > planning to get OpenStack running this week I am trying to decide on > the best platform, etc.
I'm planning to build one as part of Citrix's work on OpenStack, but it wouldn't hurt to have a non-commercial one too. > I would be willing start on an XCP appliance to test with and > contribute it back as possible. Do you have a recommended/suggested > guest OS? I'll be using CentOS, because Citrix already has CentOS-based virtual appliances and our domain 0 userspace is also derived from CentOS. That will ensure that we only have one OS to worry about in terms of in-the-field security hotfixes etc. OpenStack has great support from some Debian/Ubuntu developers, and a lot of the packaging is done already. If I were you, I'd use Squeeze or Maverick, and that way you'll get better packages, and better support from this mailing list. Cheers, Ewan. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nova Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nova More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
