> [snip] The only part of this that seems unusual to me is the reliance on an > external application (dmidecode) which we currently don't ship in the > the cloud images. I freely admit to not being overly 'cloudy' so I'll > happily defer judgment to others in the community. > This is used by Ubuntu as well. The reason for this is because there are many cloud vendors/systems that are using serial devices for meta data (CloudSigma included). `dmidecode` is used for probing such that CloudInit can pick the appropriate DataSource. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20141217/012283c3/attachment-0008.html>