On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:04 AM, McNally, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently been looking at file and metadata injection in Nova and I have > a question relating to it. > > (BTW this is based off what I have seen in nova/virt/disk.py) > > I notice that for key/value pairs specified as metadata during boot of an > instance these values are injected into a file /meta.js in the instance. > However if a file (and corresponding injection location) are specified when > booting the instance the file does not get injected.
Not on libvirt/KVM. It works on Xen, though: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/755168 > I was wondering if there was an intentional decision not to use a similar > method to that used when injecting meta.js to inject other files? Because it > seems to me the addition of such functionality would be fairly > straightforward. I'm interested in the answer to this question as well... > Also on a vaguely related note why is the metadata injected into a file > rather than stored in a location where it can be retrieved from the metadata > service? No idea. :( Cheers, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
