I thought I added the mailing list to the email thread. :0 I'll repost.. with the original pdf attached. -g Andy Edmonds wrote:

Please can this discussion happen on the mailing list - it goes completely against the grain of an "open community".

Andy andy.edmonds.be <http://andy.edmonds.be>

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:19, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro@gmail.com <mailto:garymazzaferro@gmail.com>> wrote:

State and Status good question..

State is an attribute set by the user to enable or disable the operation of the console instance. Status is the current operational disposition of the console instance.

I think this is a MUST. XEN, ESXi, VirtualBox will not configure a virtual machine without the console set. I'm not sure, but I also believe the same is true for qemu. Without the console, we exclude many private cloud configurations.

The big issue is what happens when the user moves a configuration (VM) to a provider that does not support the feature. What gets reported back ? Does the provider maintain the configuration (ala OVF like), but shows the instance status as an unsupported resource. Or, does the provider ignore the resource and report back "unknown" ? If the resource is ignored, how will that impact VM instance configuration changes and teleportability of the VM to another platform/provider ? Right now I cannot see resources or configurations being discarded just because the platform doesn't support the resource. Resources and configurations must be maintained, even though unsupported, to properly support teleportation.

-g

Thijs Metsch wrote:

Overall looks good...Just wondering why there is a state and status? one immutable and one mutable?

But would be cool if you could post it to the list as well...

Also we should try to figure out if this is a MUST, SHOULD or MAY section according to RFC2116...

Thanks Gary.

-Thijs

-----Original Message----- From: Gary Mazz [mailto:garymazzaferro@gmail.com <mailto:garymazzaferro@gmail.com>] Sent: Wed 04-Aug-10 12:06 To: Thijs Metsch; Andy Edmonds Cc: Subject: IO Console Resource -- Infrastructure doc proposal

Hi,

I've created a new section for the infrastructure document for the IO Console. The console is very important for virtual machine configurations.

I've attached the section for the document. Please review and comment if considered for inclusion.

-g