Hi Rohit, It is actually not quite the same. the boot from network we are working on is for a use case where the boot volume is on a streaming server basically, so we need instance to boot from network to load the OS from that streaming server basically. The template that would be created in CloudStack would just refer to which FILENAME on the TFTP server would be used to boot. the TFTP server IP would be defined at the VPC level.
the feature you describe for KVM is basically a way to register a regular full template but send it directly to the PrimaryStorage instead of having it in the Secondary Storage first, correct ? Cheers, On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 11:33 AM Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > Hi PL, > > Good to hear from you! > > If you've a use-case where templates are created/hosted separately and may > change often, could your use-case work by extending the direct-download > feature for XenServer? > Here are some links for the KVM support: > > > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/templates.html#bypassing-secondary-storage-for-kvm-templates > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Bypass+Secondary+Storage+%28Direct+Download%29+on+KVM > > https://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-feature-first-look-direct-download-agnostic-of-the-storage-provider/ > > > > Regards. > > ________________________________ > From: Pierre-Luc Dion <pdion...@apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 20:06 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; Serge Nassar < > snas...@cloud.ca>; Siddhartha Kattoju <skatt...@cloud.ca> > Subject: [PROPOSAL] boot from network template on XenServer > > Hi guys, it's been a while! > > I'd like to know what would be the path to follow within the community to > submit a feature into cloudstack, but also to review our proposal on > offering a template that boots from the network. > > Basic idea, is that there is some workload, specially for XenDesktop where > desktop images are hosted on a PVS server, to ease support of that workload > in cloudstack, it kind of make sense that a Instance would boot from the > network and load is root volume image from the PVS server. So what we > recently tried in a VPC model, is to add a configuration at the VPC level > to define the IP address of a TFTP server so the DHCP of the VR push the > next_server ip defined in the VPC config, then we create a template where > the URL is to boot file path on the tftp server that can reside outside of > a vpc. At the VM creation using this template, the boot order of the > instance on XenServer is to boot from the network and the root volume > created is an empty volume that can be used as ephemeral or storage for > caching. > > Cheers, > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > >
