On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Goirand <
zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
It's just an ephemeral non-persistent disk. Empty scratch storage that is deleted when you delete the instance.
...Juerg
> Thomas
>