On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
> > > On 09/26/2013 01:38 AM, Darren Shepherd wrote: >> Is there any technical reason why we couldn't use ubuntu LTS (12.04 >> and soon to be 14.04) for the system VM. Additionally is there any >> technical reason we couldn't switch to 64bit. I don't necesarily want >> to get into "fight for you favorite distro" discussion, just curious. >> > > This still underlines the problem with the SystemVM, it isn't flexible enough. > > I'm not saying we should change overnight, but the SystemVM should be > abstracted a lot more so people can throw in their own SystemVM more easily. > > I created a issue about this last year: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-451 > > I'd like to see this abstracted more so you can drop in any Linux or BSD > distro you like as long as it talks the API and does what it's asked to do. > > For Debian based we should be able to create some .deb packages which you can > simple install and for Redhat some .rpms. > > The SystemVMs aren't rocket-science, as a matter of fact, I think the are a > big mess internally when you see all the scripts. > > Wido Didn't Chiradeep work on quick cloud to solve some of those issues: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/QuickCloud > >> Darren >>
