[occi-wg] OCCI Dashboard

[shlomo.swidler at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Sam Johnston<samj at samj.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM, <shlomo.swidler at 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