Re: [Xen-devel] organizing virtual machines

[Tim Freeman <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:29:17 -0500
"Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> my fantasy world for proper system configuration management would record 
> baseline and changes so that when baseline changes one can re-create the 
> working configuration set (i.e. /etc).  For a virtual machine 
> environment like xen, one could have virtual machine associated changes 
> with a common baseline so that when you update your executables and 
> configuration directory, all the changes replicate properly or can be 
> flagged for human attention.
> 
> I'm planning a working on this when I have some spare neurons.

Have some thoughts on all this, too, but quickly, there is a recent paper on
the subject: 
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/schedule/pdfs/pap305.pdf

Besides debconf, here's some links to check out:

http://www.cfengine.org/
http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html
http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/cluster/2003/2066/00/20660500abs.htm


Tim



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