From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Landman Subject: Re: ceph-standalone Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:30:04 -0500 Message-ID: <530BB9DC.1070305@scalableinformatics.com> References: <22A49EE2-BD1A-43C2-BBAB-8DD18CBEA550@inktank.com> <530BB920.1040605@dachary.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f182.google.com ([209.85.213.182]:59357 "EHLO mail-ig0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844AbaBXVaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:30:06 -0500 Received: by mail-ig0-f182.google.com with SMTP id l13so641492iga.3 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:30:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <530BB920.1040605@dachary.org> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Loic Dachary , Jean-Charles LOPEZ Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org On 02/24/2014 04:26 PM, Loic Dachary wrote: > > > On 24/02/2014 21:59, Jean-Charles LOPEZ wrote: >> Hi Sage, >> >> I think this is a great idea. >> >> However, I would recommend that two options to be available: 1) >> First options is a standalone package as you describe it 2) Second >> option is a prepackaged VM in OVA format people can just download >> and import using VirtualBox, Fusion or VMWarePlayer. >> > Hi Jean-Charles, > > I like the idea of a ready-to-run VM. The "raw" format (i.e. a file > which is a disk with partitions and bootloader) is universal and all > hypervisor/cloud infrastructures are able to load it natively. > > My 2cts ;-) Are you looking for someone to work on building this (VM) or a script to generate one? Or a script to build a simple to play with getup? -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com twtr : @scalableinfo phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 cell : +1 734 612 4615