Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2013-01-18 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
ay, December 28, 2012 10:31 AM >To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] >> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 A

RE: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2013-01-02 Thread Hari Kannan
@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility > -Original Message- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUS

RE: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-28 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:40 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM,

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-28 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
The JEOS approach does not work well with Windows. Specifically patch management / gold image management with desktop vms where there is a high density of vms with the same base image (say Win7). It is more economical and easier to "discard" the unpatched / previous image than to maintain patches o

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-27 Thread David Nalley
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > Templates should be immutable --if there is a new version created, then it > is another template. > The api should just take a reference to the new template and not try to > deal with trickiness around updating templates. That workflow (ve

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-26 Thread John Kinsella
What might be interesting is to integrate Cobbler with ACS... John On Dec 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Harikrishna Patnala 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 stor

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-26 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Templates should be immutable --if there is a new version created, then it is another template. The api should just take a reference to the new template and not try to deal with trickiness around updating templates. That workflow (versioning templates) is a different ball of wax entirely. On 12/25

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual machine's Base Image Updatation Facility

2012-12-26 Thread Nitin Mehta
Hi Hari, My comments inline. On 26-Dec-2012, at 12:18 PM, Harikrishna Patnala 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)Temp