[one-users] Request for more image attributes

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi

I still think that this will make an excellent post! So yes go ahead
and request the account by sending an email to
community-manager at opennebula.org.

THANKS!

Ruben

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:52 AM,  <Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
>> Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), Complutense University of Madrid
>>
>> URL: http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:ruben
>> Weblog: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?author=7
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
> Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), Complutense University of Madrid
>
> URL: http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:ruben
> Weblog: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?author=7
>



-- 
Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), Complutense University of Madrid

URL: http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:ruben
Weblog: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?author=7