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Rescue disk addition #27

Open natesales opened 4 years ago

natesales commented 4 years ago

In the case of a big config issue, it's sometimes beneficial to boot from a live system to mount the target filesystem and correct the locked configuration. It would be cool to have a quick way to attach a live linux ISO and trigger a hard reset for recovery.

bswinnerton commented 4 years ago

👍 Definitely. Right now you should be able to accomplish this by choosing the "Other" option when editing a virtual machine. This will boot up netboot.xyz which has the option to use these utilities.

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That said it's definitely possible that the utility you need isn't provided by netboot.xyz, and I think the ability to have custom ISOs would be great. There's an issue for that over in https://github.com/neptune-networks/feedback/issues/14. Curious if you think that issue encapsulates the feature you're describing. If so, I'll close out this issue.

natesales commented 4 years ago

I was thinking something like a single button, "Rescue" or similar that would mount the disk and reset the VM all in one go. A netboot.xyz setup would work, but probably not as fast to do if the recovery needs to be done quickly.

Edit: That being said, this is pretty much covered by #14 about custom ISOs, so totally fine to close this.

bswinnerton commented 4 years ago

Ah! I see what you mean. It's very unintuitive but this can be accomplished today by turning off the virtual machine, changing the distribution, saving, and then changing the distribution back. The disk stays intact and it will mount the ISO of the distribution you select.

Let's keep this open to find a way to make a clearer way of remounting the distribution live CD.