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Re: [Xen-users] Does XCP support network boot/diskless dom0?

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:11:42PM +0100, Dave Scott wrote:
>  
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:40:34AM +0100, Dave Scott wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nice project! is it available already from somewhere?
> > >
> > > I think the necessary host-installer and filesystem changes will end
> > up in the next XCP snapshot build -- is that right, Alex?
> > >
> > 
> > Ok. Any ideas when the next XCP release is coming out?
> 
> Since most of the recent XCP updates have been bugfixes I was going to 
> propose creating explicit 'unstable' vs 'stable' branches. The 'unstable' 
> branch could then be refreshed more often (eg automatically after a build 
> passes a certain number of regression tests). What do you think?
>

Yeah, it sounds like a good idea!

> 
> > > > Another question: Have you thought about making XCP totally
> > stateless?
> > > > ie. make XCP run from PXE-booted ramdisk root? And have all the
> > > > state/configuration
> > > > on some management server/node..
> > > >
> > > > This is how VirtualIron (using Xen) used to work..
> > >
> > > That's certainly an interesting idea.
> > > One of the problems we have atm is that we don't have a good list
> > > of all the files in dom0 which contain bits of state.
> > >
> > 
> > This would be really nice and cool GSOC project for someone..
> > should we add it to the wiki page?
> 
> Sounds good to me...
> 

Ok. I'll write something there..

-- Pasi


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