On Friday 19 December 2014 14:38:29 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:34:19PM +0300, Dmitry Guryanov wrote: > > On Friday 19 December 2014 14:17:34 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:11:57PM +0300, Dmitry Guryanov wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > If I understood correctly, there are 3 ways to provide guest OS with > > > > some > > > > data (SSH keys, for example): > > > > > > > > 1. mount guest root fs on host (with libguestfs) and copy data there. > > > > 2. config drive and cloud-init > > > > 3. nova metadata service and cloud-init > > > > > > > > > > > > All 3 methods do almost the same thing and can be enabled or disabled > > > > in > > > > nova config file. So which one is preferred? How do people usually > > > > configure their openstack clusters? > > > > > > > > I'm asking, because we are going to extend nova/libvirt driver to > > > > support > > > > our virtualization solution (parallels driver in libvirt) and it seems > > > > it > > > > will not work as is and requires some development. Which method is > > > > first-priority and used by most people? > > > > > > I'd probably prioritize in this order: > > > 1. config drive and cloud-init > > > 2. nova metadata service and cloud-init > > > 3. mount guest root fs on host (with libguestfs) and copy data there. > > > > > > but there's not much to choose between 1 & 2. > > > > Thanks! Config drive already works for VMs, need to check how it will work > > with containers, since we can't add cdrom there. > > There are currently two variables wrt config drive > > - device type - cdrom vs disk > - filesystem - vfat vs iso9660 > > For your fully virt machines I'd probably just stick with the default > that ibvirt already supports. > > When we discussed this for LXC, we came to the conclusion that for > containers we shouldn't try to expose a block device at all. Instead > just mount the contents of the config drive at the directory location > that cloud-init wants the data (it was somewhere under /var/ but I > can't remember where right now). I think the same makes sense for > parallels' container based guests.
That's good news, we have functions to mount host dir to container in PCS, so we just need to add it to libvirt driver. > > Regards, > Daniel -- Dmitry Guryanov _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev