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

To: 'Pasi Kärkkäinen' <pasik@xxxxxx>, Alex Zeffertt <Alex.Zeffertt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Does XCP support network boot/diskless dom0?
From: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:40:34 +0100
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> 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?
 
> 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.

Cheers,
Dave


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