Hi Sander
given that we already allow many different forms of outbound connectivity, i do not see a strong objection. i am sure there is somebody out there that objects, on the other hand we have the same thing with glexec ... somebody did not want to deploy any suid program that had ever had a security issue. we are deploying it anyway.
in my opinion, one of the main advantages of VMs, is it allows you to make assumptions about many things being exactly the same, on all sites. Why else would you go to the trouble?? So this:
On 22 Apr 2010, at 13:30, Sander Klous wrote:
So, I see what you mean by banned now: the policy indeed bans the possibility to impose a specific way of obtaining your workload on every site. I think that is a good thing.
is to me turning off one of the main advantages of VMs, and for a weak reason.
JT