[openstack-dev] [nova] bp/pxe boot
Hi folks, I would add the pxe boot capability to Nova/libvirt and Horizon too. Currently, compute instances must be booted from images (or snapshots) stored in Glance or volumes stored in Cinder. Our idea (as you can find below) is already described there [1] [2] and aims to provide a design for booting compute instances from a PXE boot server, i.e. bypassing the image/snapshot/volume requirement. There is already a open blueprint but I would want to register a new one because it has no update since 2013. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance What do you think? Thanks beforehand Angelo -- Angelo Matarazzo DEK Technologies Via dei Castelli Romani, 22 00040 Pomezia (Roma) E-mail: angelo.matara...@dektech.com.au WEB: www.dektech.com.au ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] bp/pxe boot
- Original Message - From: Angelo Matarazzo matarazzoang...@gmail.com To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Hi folks, I would add the pxe boot capability to Nova/libvirt and Horizon too. Currently, compute instances must be booted from images (or snapshots) stored in Glance or volumes stored in Cinder. Our idea (as you can find below) is already described there [1] [2] and aims to provide a design for booting compute instances from a PXE boot server, i.e. bypassing the image/snapshot/volume requirement. There is already a open blueprint but I would want to register a new one because it has no update since 2013. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance What do you think? Thanks beforehand Angelo Hi Angelo, As you may have noticed I have previously commented on this blueprint and created the Wiki page to begin trying to collect ideas on this subject. Ultimately though for the use case I was looking at it ended up proving to be easier to store an iPXE image in glance and using that as the initial boot media - at least in the short term. For Libvirt/KVM (and I assume other supported hypervisors) changing the guest configuration to support network boot would be easy enough but the wider question I think is how the PXE boot server is to be presented. Does it need to be on the primary interface managed by dnsmasq or secondary interface(s) attached to external provider networks? What are your thoughts on how to approach it? Thanks, Steve ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
[openstack-dev] [nova] bp/pxe boot
Hi folks, I would add the pxe boot capability to Nova/libvirt and Horizon too. Currently, compute instances must be booted from images (or snapshots) stored in Glance or volumes stored in Cinder. Our idea (as you can find below) is already described there [1] [2] and aims to provide a design for booting compute instances from a PXE boot server, i.e. bypassing the image/snapshot/volume requirement. There is already a open blueprint but I would want to register a new one because it has no update since 2013. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-empty-vm-boot-pxe https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Blueprints/pxe-boot-instance What do you think? Thanks beforehand Angelo ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
