[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Fwd: cascading xen-tools templates

[Steve Kemp]

On Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 23:23:29 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:

> Resending, as I believe this mail didn't make it through to the list...
> 

  I think I remember reading it, but no matter.

>  So, the disk part of the templates has grown enormously - admittedly
>  not very much to my pleasure - I'd have liked it a lot if there would
>  have been some backward compatible way, so people with simple setups
>  could have kept their simple disk config - it used to be about one
>  line in the template, now it's about 10 or something... sorry that I
>  didn't track development enough to complain about that sooner! :)

  The new system allows much better setup than a fixed sized root
 device and a fixed size swap.  It had been something that people
 complained about for a while, so it was worth fixing.  I'd not
 have implemented it the way it is present now, but it is nice
 enough.

>  I have a handful of different templates, but they all have the disk
>  part in common - and as it is so long now, I definitely don't want to
>  copy and paste it again and again - I just want to include it.

  Sounds like a good idea.  I'd be happy to add support for
 template inclusions, though it seems like I don't need to do
 very much myself?

>  But I didn't try to change xen-create-image in a way that this works out yet...

  Feel free to do so.  If not I'll take a look at the weekend
 or early next week.

Steve
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