[one-users] Request for more image attributes

[Claude Noshpitz]

I've been thinking of building an OVF wrapper
(http://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf) on top of ONE, probably via OCCI.  This
might be applicable to some of these use cases.

Has anyone had enough interest in OVF to think about something like this?

--Claude


On 10/5/10 3:38 PM, "Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au"
<Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au> wrote:

> Hi Ruben,
> 
> Thanks for your reply, this will work fine for me here.
> 
> Thinking of a larger context, especially portability of images and hybrid
> clouds, I think it would be good to develop some guidelines / recommendations
> / de-facto standard for making an image and its template a self-contained unit
> that includes all information that is necessary to launch it on a hypervisor.
> There are obviously limits to that, especially context files which would be
> hard to include, but I think as lot can be done nevertheless.
> 
> I started along the lines of your first option and use the description field
> to store XML with my extended information. If there is interest I'd be happy
> to contribute / share the xsd for that.
> 
> Carsten
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsmontero at gmail.com [mailto:rsmontero at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ruben S.
> Montero
> Sent: Monday, 4 October 2010 7:27
> To: Friedrich, Carsten (ICT Centre, Acton)
> Cc: users at lists.opennebula.org
> Subject: Re: [one-users] Request for more image attributes
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You have two options to do this:
> 
> 1.- Use the description field
> 2.- Add the variables you need when creating the image or using the
> addatr, update and rmattr commands of the oneimage tool
> 
> Example, check the DESCRIPTION and the ROOT_PASSWORD
>> oneimage show 6
> IMAGE  INFORMATION
> ID             : 6
> NAME           : Arch
> TYPE           : OS
> REGISTER TIME  : 09/025 12:22:49
> PUBLIC         : Yes
> PERSISTENT     : No
> SOURCE         : /srv/cloud/images/3b33133b76375165d2a698702b844f681fbe4888
> STATE          : rdy
> RUNNING_VMS    : 0
> 
> IMAGE TEMPLATE
> BUS=virtio
> DESCRIPTION=A vanilla installation of Arch Linux. Context enabled to get IP
> DEV_PREFIX=hd
> NAME=Arch
> PATH=/srv/cloud/images/tmp/archie.raw
> ROOT_PASSWD=1234
> TYPE=OS
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ruben
> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM,  <Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au> wrote:
>> It would be nice if one could store more information with an image,
>> especially OS image information that is relevant for creating a VM template.
>> Such information could include:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> * Supported network models
>> 
>> * Supported disk busses
>> 
>> * Which features are supported (e.g. acpi )
>> 
>> * Which context variables are supported (and how are they used)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Carsten
>> 
>> 
>> 
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