Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-26 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
On 3/26/13 2:26 PM, "David Nalley" wrote: >On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Chiradeep Vittal > wrote: >> To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be >>made optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. >> I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposa

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-26 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be made > optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. > I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposal is here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Chip Childers
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:05:49PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > Yes, baremetal implies not inside a system vm, so it could run in a VM > whose lifecycle is not controlled by CloudStack. Great! That's what thought. You might want to update to be a little more clear about it though, because I

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Chiradeep Vittal < chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > That facility exists already, although the only supported baremetal > appliance is the Juniper SRX. And thats expensive. Id prefer a viable open source solution external on bare metal then on the h

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
That facility exists already, although the only supported baremetal appliance is the Juniper SRX. On 3/25/13 1:59 PM, "Outback Dingo" wrote: >it would be even nicer if the "virtual router" could be bare metal so as >not to use resources required on the hosts >Id much prefer to run Vyatta, or oth

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Yes, baremetal implies not inside a system vm, so it could run in a VM whose lifecycle is not controlled by CloudStack. On 3/25/13 1:44 PM, "Chip Childers" wrote: >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:54:09PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: >> To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Outback Dingo
it would be even nicer if the "virtual router" could be bare metal so as not to use resources required on the hosts Id much prefer to run Vyatta, or other FreeBSD pf box as the virtual router, and just have cloudstack comunicate to it however its probably outside the scope of this document, Im also

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Chip Childers
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:54:09PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be made > optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. > I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposal is here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/con

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
For clouds offering a full range of network services ("Advanced"), the virtual router template will still be necessary. On 3/25/13 2:43 AM, "Rohit Yadav" wrote: >Nice proposal, I would love to escape the necessity to preseed and >launch service VMs in order to install/start CloudStack to launch

Re: [PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-25 Thread Rohit Yadav
Nice proposal, I would love to escape the necessity to preseed and launch service VMs in order to install/start CloudStack to launch instances. But, in future when this work will be completed, won't we have to preseed systemvm templates or this whole service vms feature (vr, ssvm, cpvm) would be o

[PROPOSAL] QuickCloud

2013-03-24 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be made optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposal is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/clnVAQ