On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Sam Johnston<samj@samj.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM, <shlomo.swidler@gmail.com> wrote:
4. How will I be able to discover VM images that are appropriate for my "compute"s? For example, Amazon has public AMIs that I can launch on my instances, and I can filter the ElasticFox view to only show me 64-bit AMIs or otherwise filter them by AMI name. Is this use case covered by OVF, or is it more appropriate at the OCCI level?
This one I have a better answer for, in that there should be no "start" verb for a template (e.g. AMI), rather only a "clone" verb which returns a Location: to a new compute resource (pre-linked to any storage and network resources as necessary). We could also bundle templates into a pre-defined category, such that machines that are just not startable (e.g. due to permissions, faults, etc.) don't appear as templates.
Sounds strange to me. Sheep aSheep = new Sheep(); Object dolly = aSheep.clone(); I would expect "dolly" to be of type Sheep, the same type as the object that was cloned. Perhaps the verb "instantiate" is more appropriate to describe the act of "using a template". But it's harder to spell. .. Shlomo