On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 16:33 -0400, Perry Myers wrote:
On 07/25/2011 01:20 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> If people don't want to pre-configure something, then a hardware UUID
> (either read from the hardware or generated based on what is
> installed) is really the only option.
>
> I'm quite happy to have Matahari's 'Hardware' UUID use smbios if
> available* and do something with MAC addresses (and/or some other
> hardware identifier) if smbios is empty/unavailable.
>
> * From what I can tell, RHEV, VMware and EC2 all support smbios...
> anyone who doesn't?
They all support (or, in the case of VMWare, will support shortly)
injecting data with the user_data parameter to the create instance
operation.
The data shows up in different places in the different clouds; for
condor-cloud it's smbios, I believe that's also the case for RHEV 3; in
vSphere the data will show up as a file on a virtual CD; on EC2 it
appears on a webserver at 169.254.169.254
David