Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-26 Thread Scott Moser
: Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com To: Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com Cc: Dean Troyer dtro...@gmail.com; openstack@lists.launchpad.net openstack@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help. On Wed, 24 Jul

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-26 Thread Scott Moser
config-drive in the nova.conf file. Anything else I should take notice of? From: Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com To: Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com Cc: Dean Troyer dtro...@gmail.com; openstack@lists.launchpad.net openstack@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:58

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Dean Troyer wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com wrote: I am following the part on how to set up cloud-init from the below guide, but I was wondering how to change the user? I do not have the default ec2-user on my instance image.

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Jake G. wrote: I got the user correct now I am wondering why this is nessasary for my environment. I am not using Amazon EC2 services so why would I need to get metadata from there API? Can someone explain? Cloud-init uses the datasource of the EC2 Metadata service,

Re: [Openstack] Can I run qemu-kvm in an OpenStack Instance

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, laclasse wrote: Yes, the Ubuntu cloud image is made to run as a guest atop an hypervisor and it makes sense to optimize it by removing the unlikely needed modules that usually require hardware to run (nested virt is not yet common). Scott Moser may confirm/infirm. Maybe

Re: [Openstack] KVM on Ubuntu server 13.04

2013-04-25 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, skible.openst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Was anyone able to install kvm package on ubuntu server 13.04. It keeps on switching to another package named qemu-system-x86 Message returned when i do apt-get install kvm = Note, selecting 'qemu-system-x86' instead of 'kvm'

Re: [Openstack] How to create a Image which can extend the partition automatically.

2013-03-05 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 03/05/2013 02:04 PM, Scott Moser wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Sylvain Bauza wrote: If you look at http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/#1361764412, you'll see that resize2fs is performed. But there is a caveat with RHEL6

Re: [Openstack] initramfs-growroot or LVM

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Davide Guerri wrote: Brady, thanks for the infos and for the bugzilla link. I made some tests and some some other researches about potential performance penalties of LVM. These seem not to be noticeable especially with recent linux versions. (please see for instance

[Openstack] cirros 0.3.1 released

2013-02-08 Thread Scott Moser
openstack config-drive-v2 data source (LP: #1097488) including insertion of interfaces(5) - support NoCloud data source, as supported by cloud-init (LP: #918375) Scott Moser ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack

Re: [Openstack] Configuring instances during first boot

2013-01-30 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Juerg Haefliger wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 01/29/2013 01:08 PM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso wrote: Thanks for your replies!! Has anyone tried to resize root disk of Centos/Fedora instances with cloud-init?

Re: [Openstack] Key injection failure on boot

2013-01-13 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, David Kranz wrote: Thanks Vish, but I am still a little confused. I am using an ubuntu precise cloudimg and normally when I pass a keyname to boot, the public key shows up in ~ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys. If you've installed a newer version of python-boto into the image,

Re: [Openstack] Instance flavor root disk partition problem

2012-12-12 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, João Soares wrote: Hi, I have set up a CentOS VM according to this tutorial https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/OpenStac k/page/Creating%20qcow2%20CentOS%20Image%20for%20OpenStack?lang=en I uploaded it to glance and can boot up a

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Got 'qemu-img: error while writing sector 634880: Input/output error' in _create_image

2012-09-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Wangpan wrote: Thanks for your attention! - disk full # I believe there is enough space, because I have tried to boot serveral instances after this error with the same image, they are all booted successfully. - permission issues# Not this reason, too.

Re: [Openstack] Keyring support in openstack

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote: Team, As per patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9497/ we are adding keyring support for openstack client. If password is not specified in command line or environment variable, the user is prompted to enter password. During this time, the

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [nova] Disk attachment consistency

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Hey Everyone, Resulting Issues a) The device name only makes sense for linux. FreeBSD will select different device names, and windows doesn't even use device names. In addition xen uses /dev/xvda and kvm uses /dev/vda b)

Re: [Openstack] [OSSA 2012-011] Compute node filesystem injection/corruption (CVE-2012-3447)

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Michael Still wrote: On 08/08/12 07:38, Eric Windisch wrote: Pádraig Brady from Red Hat discovered that the fix implemented for CVE-2012-3361 (OSSA-2012-008) was not covering all attack scenarios. By crafting a malicious image with root-readable-only symlinks and

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Matt Joyce wrote: Preamble: Until now, all data that is made available by the metadata server has been data that cannot be found anywhere else at the time it may be needed. In short, an instance can't be passed it's instance id before it's instance id has been

Re: [Openstack] How do I stop image-create from using /tmp?

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Jay Pipes wrote: On 07/02/2012 01:32 PM, Mark Lehrer wrote: just did an ln -s /some/dir/with/space /tmp and that does solve I added an option to /etc/init/nova_compute.conf to specify the tmp space, so the start line looks like this: exec su -s /bin/sh -c export

Re: [Openstack] Sending userdata during server create via api's

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Ed Shaw wrote: Hi, I've posted on this previously but have yet to be pointed in the right direction - so I'm posting again. Examples or docs appreciated. I'm trying to pass user_data on server create using the xml (or JSON) api. My userdata looks like... #!/bin/bash

Re: [Openstack] Setting VM passwords when not running on Xen

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Day, Phil wrote: Hi Folks, Is anyone else looking at how to support images that need a password rather than an ssh key (windows) on hypervisors that don't support set_admin_password (e.g. libvirt) ? I'm completely ignorant about windows. Please forgive me. Is it for

[Openstack] Anyone using instance metadata?

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
Hi, I'm looking at nova, and the compute API has 3 methods: delete_instance_metadata update_instance_metadata get_instance_metadata I know that * python nova client has * the ability to specify --meta=KEY=VALUE on instance creation * a top level subcommand 'meta' which allows set

Re: [Openstack] Anyone using instance metadata?

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Metadata is supposed to be user tags that are associated with a guest that are available via the api. We discussed displaying these tags inside the guest as well. Am I reading it wrong? It seems like it *is* available inside the guest. At very

Re: [Openstack] Setting VM passwords when not running on Xen

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, John Garbutt wrote: This seemed to crop up quite a lot in different sessions at the Design summit. I am certainly interested in a standard way to inject information into VMs. What I think we need is a cross hypervisor two-way guest communication channel that is fairly

Re: [Openstack] Anyone using instance metadata?

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: The config drive was a later addition because we thought it might be useful. The plan was to add it to the metadata server once we had a /openstack available. The main difference between user-data and metadata is that metadata is available

Re: [Openstack] ssh not authenticating

2012-06-22 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Alexey Ababilov wrote: Hi, Scott! I knew that the password was already on the cirros image. However, we (Grid Dynamics engineers) faced a strange problem: 1) if an instance is launched without an ssh key, you can login using the password (generated by nova in our case);

Re: [Openstack] ssh not authenticating

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, udit agarwal wrote: Hi Mandar, Thanks for your reply. But I am still stuck in the problem. I tried with cirros but with no luck. And for the next one, the system still asks me for password, but it was supposed to be password-less. Can anybody help me with this?? As

Re: [Openstack] File injection support

2012-06-11 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Fredric Morenius wrote: Hello again, I did some further tests on this issue with the qcow2 image, the qcow2 image converted to raw and the _blank (raw) image from the UEC tar archive. I loaded nbd with $ sudo modprobe nbd max_part=8 *** qcow2 image *** $ k$

Re: [Openstack] File injection support

2012-06-08 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/08/2012 09:20 AM, Fredric Morenius wrote: Hello All, An update on the use of the qemu-nbd/kpartx based solution to inject files into VM images: After some more testing it has turned out that injection into the UEC version of CirrOS

Re: [Openstack] File injection support

2012-06-08 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Scott Moser wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/08/2012 09:20 AM, Fredric Morenius wrote: Hello All, An update on the use of the qemu-nbd/kpartx based solution to inject files into VM images: After some more testing it has turned out

Re: [Openstack] File injection support

2012-05-30 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Fredric Morenius wrote: Hello Pádraig, I am also trying to get file injection to work in Essex, but have run into some issues, as stated here: https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/198878 The image I am launching is a simple bare container qcow2 image (CirrOS,

Re: [Openstack] Can't ssh into instance

2012-05-25 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Anton Haldin wrote: Thank you very much guys Sébastien and Leander It was very interesting case. I thought if I see this lines in compute.log then sshkey injection was successfully Given functional metadata service, ssh key injection from the host is not necessary

Re: [Openstack] Can't ssh into instance

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote: Compute log: Log: http://paste.openstack.org/show/18149/ I've tried bot root and ubuntu as account names (ssh -i key.pem root@10.1.2.3 and ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@10.1.2.3) and the result is still Read from socket failed: Connection reset by

Re: [Openstack] centos 6 images

2012-05-23 Thread Scott Moser
]. [2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/view/head:/doc/examples/cloud-config.txt Thanks for looking at this. jason - Original Message - From: Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com To: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com Cc: Fedora Cloud SIG cl

Re: [Openstack] centos 6 images

2012-05-22 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 05/22/2012 03:39 PM, Andy Grimm wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 05/22/2012 04:07 AM, Jason Ford wrote: I am trying to put together an image for centos 6 that works like cloud-init on ubuntu

Re: [Openstack] Public image repository via a synchronization script

2012-04-27 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: I think it would be very convenient to have public image repositories and an easy way to use them, so someone installing OpenStack can easily get images into Glance with minimal work. At the design summit, there were a number of talks which

Re: [Openstack] Agreeing a common set of Image Properties

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: Is there a (de-facto) standard for image metadata/properties? I'd like to be able to able to launch e.g. the Debian Squeeze image provided by the cloud. This is particularly important for clouds that don't allow image upload, but likely this

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection (code summit session?)

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Andrew Bogott wrote: I'm reviving this ancient thread to ask: Will there be a code summit session about this? And/or are there plans to start developing a standard set of guest agents for Folsom? http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/100

Re: [Openstack] Agreeing a common set of Image Properties

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Moser
-convention I try one of these, and start to develop a trust in joeuser as a provider. Now, I can use his public gpg keys and trust him. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: The data you're after might be useful to you, and might scratch an itch. I

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection (code summit session?)

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: Config drive can support all EC2 functionality, I believe. Images would need to be respun for OpenStack with config-drive, unless we populated the config drive in a way that worked with cloud-init. (Scott?) cloud-init supports config-drive

Re: [Openstack] python-glanceclient

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Dan Wendlandt wrote: Hi Joe, I've often had a similar thought myself of whether a single 'osclient' would be better. I see consistency across all clients as the bare minimum, and a single client as an interesting option to explore. Thanks for driving this Dean, I look

Re: [Openstack] OVF vs. bare container formats for qcow2 images

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Lorin Hochstein wrote: All: Given that I have a qcow2 image from somewhere (e.g., downloaded it from a uec-images.ubuntu.com, created one from a raw image using qemu-img) that i want to add to glance: 1. How can I tell whether it's an ovf or bare container format?

Re: [Openstack] OVF vs. bare container formats for qcow2 images

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Lorin Hochstein wrote: All: Given that I have a qcow2 image from somewhere (e.g., downloaded it from a uec-images.ubuntu.com, created one from a raw image using qemu-img) that i want to add to

Re: [Openstack] problem ssh-ing into vms

2012-03-28 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Pierre Amadio wrote: Hi there ! I'm puzzled with a ssh issue. Things used to work before, and now, i cannot access my vms anymore. Thank you for attaching euca-get-console-output. That provides the real hint here. | cloud-init start-local running: Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Re: [Openstack] KVM disk performance

2012-03-26 Thread Scott Moser
Can you provide information about what version of kvm you're using ? I suspect this is really unrelated to openstack specifically. On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Martin van Wilderen - JDN BV wrote: Hi List, I have a question about KVM disk performance. We are using Openstack Nova on three machines.

Re: [Openstack] KVM disk performance

2012-03-26 Thread Scott Moser
, at 5:12 PM, Scott Moser wrote: Can you provide information about what version of kvm you're using ? I suspect this is really unrelated to openstack specifically. On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Martin van Wilderen - JDN BV wrote: Hi List, I have a question about KVM disk performance. We

[Openstack] cloud-init support for config-drive

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Moser
Hey all, I recently (yesterday) added 'configdrive' support to cloud-init. The most recent daily builds of ubuntu 12.04 (precise) [1] should be able to take advantage of configdrive. I tried to document what I have at

Re: [Openstack] RHEL / CentOS - interfaces.template

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:56:18PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: The netcf lib looks interesting. Perhaps it could leverage libguestfs (already integrated) to maximise the types and configurations of guests it could target? It's an interesting

Re: [Openstack] RHEL / CentOS - interfaces.template

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Joshua Harlow wrote: Sure that makes sense (less dependency on guest file-systems). Although one of my concerns was that I thought this config drive stuff was only in the openstack api and not in the EC2 one. So that limits the market there (especially as openstack

Re: [Openstack] RHEL / CentOS - interfaces.template

2012-02-14 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Leandro Reox wrote: Hi guys, Anyone already implemented networking injection to RHEL systems acting as a guest ? If no any plans to make it to Essex final ? Before we go down the road of trying to write system network configuration scripts for each potential guest OS,

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-16 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Scott Moser wrote: What does a Server Personality give me that cannot be accomplished accomplished by guest and lauching-entity agreeing on a key-value pair with keyname server-personality. I think you

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-16 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, John Garbutt wrote: One use case is providing metadata to an instance before that instance starts their network stack. A bit of an edge case, but I guess one instance of this use case is the network injection logic used for Flat networking. Would injected files cover

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-15 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, McNally, Dave wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. Jesse I can see how there might be concerns around using file injection but it seems as if that was chosen as a method of inserting user-specified metadata into an instance which is why I was wondering why it wasn't

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-15 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Jesse Andrews wrote: Great question. Right now there are 3 approaches to metadata/runtime config: * ec2 metadata service - http://169.254.169.254/ (used by ubuntu's cloud-init for example) * config drive - added in diablo * xenstore via openstack agent -

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-15 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Jesse Andrews wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'm just curious, what are the motivations behind inventing something other than the EC2 Metadata service?  It is generally functional, and quite a lot can (and has) built atop

Re: [Openstack] [GLANCE] Proposal: Combine the container_format and disk_format fields in 2.0 Images API

2011-12-05 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Soren Hansen wrote: 2011/12/1 Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com: structure tar'd up. However, I think this can be more easily accomplished by consolidating the disk and container formats in the 2.0 API to just a single format field with the possible values:    ova - This

Re: [Openstack] Cloud-init server?

2011-11-07 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Joshua Harlow wrote: Hi I am wondering if there is any documentation on the server that is created for cloud-init to connect to? I'm guessing you're referring to the meta-data service. This is implemented in nova/api/ec2/cloud.py . It basically mimics the ec2 metadata

Re: [Openstack] Cannot boot from volume with 2 devices

2011-11-04 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Gaurav Gupta wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Sounds like we can work around this pretty easily by sorting the disks before we pass them into the xml template. The long term

Re: [Openstack] Cannot boot from volume with 2 devices

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Sounds like we can work around this pretty easily by sorting the disks before we pass them into the xml template. The long term solution here is not to load the kernel and the ramdisk outside the image, but rather let grub load it with

Re: [Openstack] ANN: (Unofficial) OpenStack Diablo packages for Ubuntu Oneiric

2011-10-25 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Kiall Mac Innes wrote: On Oct 25, 2011 8:04 p.m., Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Can you point me to this discussion? It sound awfully like there has been some confusion.. Who was it that said this? It was on one of the OpenStack or Ubuntu IRC channels a

Re: [Openstack] can't ssh,but ping is OK

2011-10-20 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, aliex_liu wrote: /NOVA-INIT/instances/instacnes-002a/console.log when i run a instance,the default route has been deleted, and why? can i add the default route? only one network interface eth0 A more complete console log would be useful. The instance can't seem

Re: [Openstack] using uec qcow2 images in openstack?

2011-09-27 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Jesse Andrews wrote: I can add ami style images to diablo nova/glance via: wget http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/natty/current/natty-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz tar -zxvf natty-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz glance add -A KEYSTONE_TOKEN name=uec-natty-kernel

Re: [Openstack] ImageTooLarge: Image is larger than instance type allows

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, darkfower wrote: Hi, (nova.rpc): TRACE: raise exception.ImageTooLarge() (nova.rpc): TRACE: ImageTooLarge: Image is larger than instance type allows (nova.rpc): TRACE: image size biggest 20GB ? why ? You need to change the 'local_gb' for the instance_type if you

Re: [Openstack] Ubuntu run instance error + xen

2011-08-26 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Leo van den Bulck wrote: Hi, Talking about cloud-init and Ubuntu instances... I have a problem related to that part which I can't really reproduce reliably. When spinning up an Ubuntu tty image, I'm often seeing this, during the cloud-init/cloud-setup phase:

Re: [Openstack] Ubuntu run instance error + xen

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Joshua Harlow wrote: Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done. [1.348832] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null) cloud-init start-local running: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:34:59 +. up 4.01 seconds no instance data found in start-local init: cloud-init-local main

Re: [Openstack] nova on Debian

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Simon Guerrero wrote: Hi folks I've been trying to get an install of openStack working on Debian (sid, for my sins). I figured a good start point might be the Ubuntu Maverick guide. I followed the guide, then the Installing Nova On A Single Host guide. I had to make

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: Comments inline below. On 6/20/2011 1:40 PM, Scott Moser wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: We're very much looking forward to the new portable configuration drive functionality and would like to provide feedback

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: If you don't like the name, thats fine, thats why I suggested it be made configurable. Additionally, I want the user to bypass openstack completely, and give what looks like garbage to it, but the VM will understand. This is something

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: I agree that there is a difference in difficulty of implementation between a quick fix and a more generic fix. I believe what I'm suggesting is a generic fix that will address longer term needs of openstack, and do so in a fairly clean way.

Re: [Openstack] euca-bundle-instance error

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Diego Parrilla Santamaría wrote: Hi all, we are testing the Cactus release of Openstack Nova and we tried to bundle a Windows instance with 'euca-bundle-instance' as follows: Client OS: Ubuntu Natty 64 bits euca2ools and dependencies: what comes in Natty by default,

Re: [Openstack] OS API server password generation

2011-03-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, George Reese wrote: Of all the boostrapping mechanisms I have encountered, the AWS model still remains the best. Specifically, with the guest OS pulling the keys from a trusted platform source. Any mechanism that requires an agent or requires any ability of the

Re: [Openstack] OS API server password generation

2011-03-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:36 AM, George Reese wrote: It's a mistake to send OpenStack pursuing a flaw in Cloud Servers. Boy... Isn't this a rat hole that I've helped us go down. I am completely pro-agent (well, more agnostic). I would certainly hope

Re: [Openstack] xen server agent code in nova?

2011-02-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Thierry Carrez wrote: Paul Voccio wrote: So the question I want to pose to the community is if they are interested in the code, where should it go and how should we move forward on extending it? I think it's always interesting to publish the code. I'm not convinced