Re: Providing qemu-guest-agent in our images
On 2/7/19 9:58 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:17:53AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> As a follow-up with the discussion about agent inside VMs, I wonder if
>> we should install qemu-guest-agent inside our images. Normally, it
>> provides what Ted was talking about: hooks for freezing filesystem,
>> mysql, etc.
>
> In which environment would this agent be useful? Can OpenStack make use
> of it?
>
> Bastian
This has been implemented in Nova since February 2015 (4 years ago). I
just didn't realize it. Here's the blueprint:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/quiesced-image-snapshots-with-qemu-guest-agent
It'd be a shame to not make use of it, IMO. More than this, I'd love to
see things like MariaDB and friends implement the correct hooks by
default in Debian.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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