<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Shahar Havivi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaharh@redhat.com" target="_blank">shaharh@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
</div></div>You are using a static IP which can be a problem on creating multiple VMs.<br>
In this case you will need to run cloud-init on each created VM with a new<br>
static IP or DHCP.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes, I understand your point.<br></div><div>But my contingent need is to temporary setup a bunch of "fat" (8Gb of ram and 2 cores) clients that have to stress a RAC DB in several ways (concurrent HammerDB, load balancing and failover tests, ecc...)<br></div><div>They have to stay on a test network not under my control and where there is not a dhcp server and I'm not allowed to set up one.<br></div><div>So I have only a pool of Ip addresses on this network. I will start with 2-3 clients, but then it could be that I need to instantiate also tenths of them.<br></div><div>I have not so many resources and time to setup a more engineered provisioning system (Foreman, Puppet, ManageIQ, ecc...) at least at this time.<br></div><div>Coming back to CentOS 7 template, I made some combinations and finally I found that the best result is obtained with NetworkManager enabled on the source template from which I create the VM with cloud-init.<br></div><div>It would be nice to have a sort of translation to a user-data (or similar...) file when I compose my cloud-init settings for a new vm inside the gui, so that I can duplicate further similar instantiations from oVirt CLI or other scripted commands, bypassing the web gui.<br></div><div>I'm not so acquainted with cloud-init in general and with its implementation in oVirt. If there is any useful link for this kind of task or a suggestion to pass a file for VM creation is welcome.<br><br></div><div>Thanks again anyway,<br></div><div>Gianluca<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div>