----- "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes@redhat.com>
> To: beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:49:19 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: [Beaker-devel] Fwd: Re: take button in beaker
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----- "Petr Benas"
<pbenas@redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- "Vladimir Benes"
<vbenes@redhat.com> wrote:
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Hi all,
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> > we discussed yesterday the possibility of
returning take button into beaker. Maybe it can help
something but as for now I use it like this.
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> > find myself any machine.. select the distro I want
to provision and then click schedule provision (in the
certain system page). This creates me a job and send me
notification about it. So it works as well as take and even
better in a way of scheduling currently occupied system as
you don't have to check if it's already free.
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> > The job is
not cancelled when rebooting so you can make whatever you
want with the box.
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I don't
see any reason for changing the code to get the Take button
back, any ideas what went wrong so the need to have Take
button came out?
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> There is one, probably not sufficient enough since it's
not too common case. Manual provisioning. If I want to
install machine manually through vnc, need to perform it
when the job starts. With oldschool provision I would
reserve the machine and then reprovision it. This is now
impossible. I reserve the machine, enqueue job with vnc
install and return2beaker with hope no other jobs are in
queue.
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> I know I could use my own kickstart, but it seems to me
it would cost me much more time. Actually, I don't need Take
button, but ability to reprovision the machine.
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Just an idea, what about "Schedule provision" for machines
where you're not current user and oldschool "Provision" if
you're current user?
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This would meet needs Jan and I were describing and the
infinite time reservation would remain deprecated, as was
intention of Take button removal. Would this be hard to
implement? Reprovisioning the machine and starting new
reservesys with the time remaining...
I thought about doing this. The problem is that as soon as you go outside of the scheduler you are no longer beholden to any time restraints. Currently we have no automated way of nicely
booting a user from a machine (other than the scheduler/watchdog). At least for the moment, implementing this kind of feature is not a high priority for us AFAIK.
Cheers
Raymond
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> > cheers,
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> > Vladimir
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> Petr Benas
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> Kernel QA Brno
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> RedHat Czech, s.r.o
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Petr Benas
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