Hi, On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:46 +0100, Chris Webb wrote:
of VMs within a cloud for load-balancing is something that should surely be completely user-transparent. Is this intended for some other purpose?)
I think it might be useful to know the exact state at sometime. Maybe we an split is up: It only get in migration state when the users triggered the operation. It stays in running when it is a load-balacing operation.
Also, I don't follow what your 'installed' and 'starting' states are for. Surely our virtual machine is either running or not: we can't distinguish from outside whether a guest OS has fully started or not, even if we believe such a distinction is well-defined.
I tried to summarize the states in the wiki page :-) Cheers, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com