[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

Hello,

here I would generate a OVM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format

so it is in first stage hypervizor independent.

however for sure, the NIC needs to be supported who is emulated.
E.g. E1000 under VMware is ok, and not their proprietary VMXnet.

So I would simply support the commonly used - in most cases the E1000 from
Intel.
if someone uses an "special" hypervizor, which is not supporting to emulate
an E1000, well... unsupported

Just my 2 cents,

Cheers
Stephan



2015-11-09 13:43 GMT+01:00 Robert Kisteleki <robert at ripe.net>:

> Dear All,
>
> At the risk of assigning more work to myself than I anticipate: there's an
> action item on me to come up with some thoughts and questions to the
> community about the VM probes. For example: what virtualisation technology
> would people prefer (as we cannot support all of them)? How would we manage
> these (think of field-upgrades) and how to administer them (at the moment
> it's easy, since we supply the whole device with keys and firmware).
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
> On 2015-11-09 13:34, Stephan Wolf wrote:
> > +2 for VM probe
>
>
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