----- "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes(a)redhat.com> wrote:
From: "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes(a)redhat.com>
To: beaker-devel(a)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
resending from qe-dept list
----- "Petr Benas" <pbenas(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> > The job is not cancelled when rebooting so you can make whatever you want with
the box.
> >
> > 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Just an idea, what about "Schedule provision" for machines where you're not
current user and oldschool "Provision" if you're current user?
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
>
> >
> > cheers,
> > Vladimir
> >
>
> --
> Petr Benas
> Kernel QA Brno
> RedHat Czech, s.r.o
> pbenas on #brno, #kernel-qe, #qa
>
--
Petr Benas
Kernel QA Brno
RedHat Czech, s.r.o
pbenas on #brno, #kernel-qe, #qa
_______________________________________________ Beaker-devel mailing list
Beaker-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/beaker-devel