[one-users] Request for more image attributes

[Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au]

Hi Ruben,

I'd be more than happy write a mini-how-to on the blog; do I just write something and send it to you (or community-manager at opennebula.org) or what is the process?

I, however, also think that Claude's suggestion of supporting OVF would probably be a much superior solution than my current approach (a lot more work too though). If there is a movement to support OVF, introducing a inter-mediate solution might do more harm than good; especially if it later turns out there is no trivial mapping from my format to OVF.

Carsten

-----Original Message-----
From: rsmontero at gmail.com [mailto:rsmontero at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ruben S. Montero
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 20:01
To: Friedrich, Carsten (ICT Centre, Acton)
Cc: users at lists.opennebula.org
Subject: Re: [one-users] Request for more image attributes

Hi Carsten

This is also quite interesting!. Maybe you would be interested in
writing a mini-howto in the opennebula blog on how to extend the
meta-information for the images, and the xsd you are using.

We can use this work to start thinking of a common
guidelines/recommendations for image & template development...

Cheers

Ruben

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:38 AM,  <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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>
>
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>
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Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), Complutense University of Madrid

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