What might be interesting is to integrate Cobbler with ACS... John
On Dec 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Harikrishna Patnala <harikrishna.patn...@citrix.com> wrote: > When a user tries to create VM, following sequence of events happen with > current CloudStack implementation > > > (1) User / admin adds a template (which is stored on secondary storage) > > (2) Template gets downloaded from secondary storage to primary storage > > (3) New delta disk is created out of downloaded template > > (4) VM created will be booting from delta disk > > > Requirement: > If admin replaces (1) with a new updated template, CS doesn't have a > mechanism to create a new mapping between delta disk(3) and updated > template. We need to provide a way to create this mapping on restart of user > VM. > > In order to implement the above mentioned requirement, I am planning to > modify the API restoreVirtualMachine which creates a new volume for the vm in > case its existing volume gets corrupted. > Adding the logic to check for the updated template and create a new delta > disk from the updated template. > > > Comments/suggestions ? > > Thanks > -Harikrishna > Stratosec - Secure Infrastructure as a Service o: 415.315.9385 @johnlkinsella
