[occi-wg] Fwd: vCloud API

[Sam Johnston]

Shlomo,

I'd be hesitant to remove legacy support for something that someone
somewhere will need. For example you can move the encryption key for the
Windows user accounts database (SAM) to a floppy which is consulted at boot
(see q310305 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310105>), some small linux
distributions boot from floppies (or consult them for config - see gibraltar
firewall), etc.

However I'd planned to implement this as an attribute and if I remember well
they're a noun in vCloud (this is one of my main grievances about vCloud -
lots of nouns, albeit far less than its predecessors). Their API is very
similar to the current thinking for OCCI, though I think there's still a far
bit of unnecessary complexity we can boil off (which is no wonder when you
consider its roots).

Sam

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, <shlomo.swidler at gmail.com> wrote:

> To the list this time.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <shlomo.swidler at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [occi-wg] vCloud API
> To: Randy Bias <randyb at neotactics.com>
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>
> Randy,
>
> Do share the use case, please?
>
> It could be useful in transferring small amounts of data (e.g. secret
> account credentials) between machines without using the network. But it's
> not necessary to distinguish a virtual floppy disk from any other type of
> disk, as long as you can make a small enough volume size (1.44 Mb?) for the
> cost to be irrelevant.
>
> .. Shlomo
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Randy Bias <randyb at neotactics.com> wrote:
>
>> I've actually found very good use for these.
>>
>> --Randy
>>
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Wes Felter wrote:
>>
>> http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/vcloudapi
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>> It supports virtual floppy disks; clearly we must add this essential
>> feature to OCCI immediately. :-)
>>
>> Wes Felter
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