On 07/18/2012 01:47 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 07/17/2012 10:03 PM, jvlcek wrote: >> >> I just wanted to let folks know what is happening regarding cloud-init >> support for RHEVm and vSphere and what OSs. >> >> Currently cloud-init only supports Ec2. A version is available >> for Fedora and EPEL. >> >> I am working on updating upstream to also support sourcing >> user data for RHEVm and vSphere, using the same technique we do >> with Audrey from a Delta-Cloud launch. > > Can you please provide some more background on this? > which feature set of cloud-init do you see this covering and how would > the information will be passed (I assume some would be via the vm > payload). > but going forward, i was envisioning for ovirt/rhev to better > integrate with cloud-init via something like the meta data service (vm > payload of type network). > > so there is custom vm payload, which integration via the current > payload mechanism would be great (since it will be the userdata for > network payload as well). > but for some things, iiuc cloud-init correctly, they are not supposed > to be via userdata, rather via specific named fields. > > Thanks, > Itamar > >> >> Once I have this pushed upstream I plan to push it to Fedora and then >> out to RHEL targeting release 6.4 >> >> See: BZ 838659 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838659 >> >> Please let me know if this plan conflicts with any known needs or >> if I am on the right track. > I am adding a new data source to cloud-init allowing user data to be picked up by cloud-init running on a launching RHEVm and vSphere instance the same way we currently do for Audrey as launched from DeltaCloud. That being: on RHEVm the user data is made available via floppy and on vSphere via a cdrom. I am not familiar with what you are envisioning for ovirt/rhev. How soon would that ovirt/rhev pieces be available? Perhaps we should discuss enhancing what I am doing and when that could happen. Joe _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
