[occi-wg] Instance runtime API

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Hi Meb,

While those APIs are highly interesting and required for service  
portability (contextualization of VMs), they are out of the scope of  
this WG.

Regards
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On 20/04/2009, at 12:45, Marc-Elian Bégin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please tell me if I'm out-of-scope and/or out-of-sync, as I haven't
> read all the email threads and docs the group has produced.
>
> Are we considering the API around the interactions taking place
> between a running instance and the cloud?  I mean by that two types of
> interactions:
> 1- Hooks required at the end of the boot sequence to bootstrap the
> connection between a specific image instance and its cloud context.
> 2- The interface with the cloud environment to retrieve instance
> information such as hostname (private and public), instance specific
> user-data, etc.
>
> I realise that this is heavily influenced by my work using EC2.  The
> goal would be to improve images interoperability between clouds,
> setting aside for the moment the virtualisation technology used (which
> also bring other issues...).
>
> Comments?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Meb
>
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