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Marcus Sorensen commented on CLOUDSTACK-451:
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This would perhaps provide incentive to document how the system VM is set up. I
don't see a lot of people rolling their own, but if we switch to API control
and have the system VM setup documented, that certainly opens the door for
people to do what they want.
> System VMs shouldn't be just Debian based
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> Key: CLOUDSTACK-451
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-451
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Wido den Hollander
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> This one is tied into: CLOUDSTACK-450
> Currently our System VMs are a Debian based template which are pretty big.
> If we abstract the way we talk to the System VM by adding an API it shouldn't
> matter anymore which distro or OS will be running in there.
> Some users might want to use a different distribution or build their own
> homebrew System VM as long as they implement the API.
> Most System VM tasks can be done in Read-Only mode as well, the filesystem of
> the System VM doesn't need to be R/W, which would make them more robust.
> In the end a System VM shouldn't have to be bigger then something like 50MB
> when stripped down.
> This issue is here to raise awareness that this has to be addressed at some
> point.
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