Re: Debian Wheezy images for OpenStack in HP cloud
On 01/09/2014 04:19 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> Ah. OK. Confirmed. Seems to be a Horizon bug. Best is if you open a
> support ticket.
Will do.
>> P.S: I still don't get what's the use of the config drive in the HP
>> cloud context. Could you explain?
>
> Do we support config drive? In general, config drive is OpenStack's
> equivalent of Amazon's EC2 metadata service. It's used to provide
> instance information (instance name, IP address, SSH key aso) to the
> instance though a mountable (read-only CDROM) drive but the image needs
> to support it. cloud-init's support of config drive is very limited and
> IIRC only supports static networking configuration at the moment
> (Rackspace needs this because they use static IPs in their environment
> hence the instance can't get to the EC2 metadata service without
> configuring the network first).
>
> ...Juerg
Probably I didn't ask correctly...
What's the /dev/vdb that is automatically mounted in /mnt for?
Thomas
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