[jira] [Updated] (CLOUDSTACK-451) System VMs shouldn't be just Debian based

["Wido den Hollander (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Wido den Hollander updated CLOUDSTACK-451:
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    Assignee: ilya musayev
    
> System VMs shouldn't be just Debian based
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>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-451
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-451
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) 
>            Reporter: Wido den Hollander
>            Assignee: ilya musayev
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> This one is tied into: CLOUDSTACK-450
> Currently our System VMs are a Debian based template which are pretty big.
> If we abstract the way we talk to the System VM by adding an API it shouldn't matter anymore which distro or OS will be running in there.
> Some users might want to use a different distribution or build their own homebrew System VM as long as they implement the API.
> Most System VM tasks can be done in Read-Only mode as well, the filesystem of the System VM doesn't need to be R/W, which would make them more robust.
> In the end a System VM shouldn't have to be bigger then something like 50MB when stripped down.
> This issue is here to raise awareness that this has to be addressed at some point.

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