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GuestAgent

Revision as of 15:15, 13 July 2010 by JasonMeridth (talk)

Guest Agent

Live Notes may be taken for this topic at: http://etherpad.openstack.org/GuestAgent

Current architecture of the Rackspace Guest Agents

App -> Host (XenStore) <-> Guest Agent

Current commands on Guest Agents (Linux/Windows):

  • Get current version
  • Reset password
  • Ready/Available?
  • Reset network
  • Update Agent
  • Update XenTools (windows only)
  • KMS Licensing (windows only)
  • Initiate Key for encryption mechanism of password reset
  • File injection

Making the agents hypervisor agnostic

Requirements

Considerations

1. What happens when a client/customer kills the guest agent or disables the startup?