BUG: cloud-config-agent breaks libvirtd (rel 3.02)

2012-08-14 Thread mpatton
This is totally not cool. Running this tool modifies not just agent.properties, but also just appends stuff to /etc/libvirt/{qemu.conf,libvirtd.conf} and /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd. And due to a disagreement between the changes to qemu.conf and sysconfig/libvirtd, manages to break libvirtd. Nice! At n

Re: KVM Agent setup/configuration

2012-08-13 Thread mpatton
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Marcus Sorensen > wrote: >> know what secondary storage we have, then cloudstack is canonical. >> There is no concept in cloudstack of 'query and update myself about >> which secondary storage devices the hosts know about'. Fair enough. But it damn well better

ASF license compatibility friction

2012-08-13 Thread mpatton
In "Re: Review Request: Moved S3 and EC2 to DAO Implementation and removed Hibernate dependency" and other recent threads, there seems to be quite a bit of "we have to rip this tool out" or "we can't package CS with XYZ because it's not ASF compatible. (see VMware, NetApp, et. al.)" So instead of

RE: Networking question

2012-08-09 Thread mpatton
> In basic mode, security groups are used for segregation but VMs are only > allowed one network to live in. Why? Why couldn't an instance in basic > mode belong to multiple networks? No good reason. My comment about the ready availability of good-enough hardware was not meant to imply that I su

Patch: cloud-install-sys-tmplt

2012-08-03 Thread mpatton
Not only does the original suffer from re-computing the same value over and over despite 'tmpfile' having been defined. This makes a maintenance headache. Worse, downloading files into /usr/lib* is VERBOTEN!! Options like /var/{tmp,lib} are at least proper but it makes vastly more sense to put the