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 *  Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud.com, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
 * 
 * It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 */
package com.cloud.vm;

import com.cloud.agent.manager.Commands;
import com.cloud.deploy.DeployDestination;

/**
 * A VirtualMachineGuru knows how to process a certain type of virtual machine.
 *
 */
public interface VirtualMachineGuru {
    /**
     * finalize the virtual machine deployment.
     * @param cmds commands that were created.
     * @param profile virtual machine profile.
     * @param dest destination to send the command.
     * @return true if everything checks out.  false if not and we should try again.
     */
    boolean finalizeDeployment(Commands cmds, VirtualMachineProfile profile, DeployDestination dest);
    
    
    /**
     * Check the deployment results.
     * @param cmds commands and answers that were sent.
     * @param profile virtual machine profile.
     * @param dest destination it was sent to.
     * @return true if deployment was fine; false if it didn't go well.
     */
    boolean checkDeploymentResult(Commands cmds, VirtualMachineProfile profile, DeployDestination dest);
}