[#ABICLOUD-215] Virtual Images should not handle USB, Floppy, Sound and DVD/CD entries - ABIQUO

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Virtual Images should not handle USB, Floppy, Sound and DVD/CD entries

Created: 05/Oct/09 02:14 PM Updated: 02/Mar/11 11:27 AM Resolved: 01/Oct/10 04:54 PM

Component/s:

Virtualization

Affects Version/s:

abiCloud-0.8.0

Fix Version/s:

None

Time Tracking:

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In order to avoid unnecesary parsing of OVF files with information not used in a Cloud Computing environment do not parse the information retrieved about:

1) Floppies
2) DVDs/CDs readers
3) USBs
4) Sound System

The Virtual Machines created from these images should not have any controllers for them because it's not possible to use them.

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Albert Puig added a comment - 19/Oct/09 05:25 PM

CIM standar specify 33 valid resource types for the OVF resource allocation setting data element.

By now abilcoud manage only 5 (cpu, memoy, hd, storage and network) but the others hardware profiles do not interfere.

A more detailed analysis of all the defined resources should be done before discard any of them.

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Albert Puig added a comment - 09/Aug/10 06:20 PM

Actually the OVF templates only use 3 CIM resources.

We can figure witch resources should be used during the deployment in order to be compliant with OVF standard, but at the template level only RAM, CPU and HardDrive are used.

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Diego Parrilla added a comment - 09/Aug/10 06:27 PM

Agree.

The only resource to consider, and only to be more compliant with vCloud, is DVDs/CDs readers, or better, ISO mount on these readers. We should parse also this resource now, though we don't use it yet.