6:03 a.m.
Hi,
We are looking for a way to copy files and execute scripts inside Virtual Machines hosted
on oVirt manager (Any supported guest OS) either through REST API or using Guest Tools.
Please let me know how we can achieve it.
-Thanks,
Pravin Amin
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11:23 a.m.
New subject: Query regarding copying and executing files inside guest OS
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:42 PM Pravin Amin <Pravin.Amin(a)veritas.com> wrote:
I'm not an expert in this area, but I think you have 2 options:
- ssh - we have integration in engine, not sure how it can be used
- qemu-guest-agent - I think it supports running commands on a host, but I
don't know
any derails. We integrate with it, but I don't know if we support such
options.
I hope that Ryan can help with this.
For qemu-guest-agent, the best place to ask is probably qemu-discuss, added.
Nir
2:31 a.m.
New subject: Query regarding copying and executing files inside guest OS
ssh is just a transport for plain serial console. That can be used for scripting indeed
It’s not through REST API, you just use ssh as a client from wherever you want
plenty of details in [1]
- qemu-guest-agent - I think it supports running commands on a host,
but I don't know
remote file exec is blacklisted. And it nyway can’t be invoked from oVirt API
Thanks,
michal
[1]
https://resources.ovirt.org/old-site-files/wiki/Ovirt36_deep_dive-guest_s...
3:05 a.m.
New subject: Query regarding copying and executing files inside guest OS
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:42 PM Pravin Amin <Pravin.Amin(a)veritas.com> wrote:
Pravin, I think we could all benefit if you elaborate on your use case.
The other day I spoke with +Barak Korren about a tight integration of
oVirt to libguestfs. I think that it could be lovely if we can do
LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=ovirt \
LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=https://username:password@fqdn/path/to/ovirt/api \
virt-edit -d vm_name /file/to/edit
in order to edit a file in an ovirt-defined VM. Behind the scenes,
oVirt would prepare the VM storage on a hypervisor and relay the
guestfs connection to it.
Such a remote virt-cat would be an awesome debug tool for a dead VM.
Such a virt-sysprep - a great headless way to prepare a template.
Are you looking for something similar?
3:25 a.m.
New subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Query regarding copying and executing files inside guest OS
Hi Dan,
We have some scripts and test data files which we need to copy to guest VMs and then
execute the scripts inside the guest VM and looking for ways to automate this process for
data validation testing.
-Thanks,
Pravin
On 22/02/19, 2:35 PM, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:42 PM Pravin Amin <Pravin.Amin(a)veritas.com> wrote:
Pravin, I think we could all benefit if you elaborate on your use case.
The other day I spoke with +Barak Korren about a tight integration of
oVirt to libguestfs. I think that it could be lovely if we can do
LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=ovirt \
LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=https://username:password@fqdn/path/to/ovirt/api \
virt-edit -d vm_name /file/to/edit
in order to edit a file in an ovirt-defined VM. Behind the scenes,
oVirt would prepare the VM storage on a hypervisor and relay the
guestfs connection to it.
Such a remote virt-cat would be an awesome debug tool for a dead VM.
Such a virt-sysprep - a great headless way to prepare a template.
Are you looking for something similar?
3:56 a.m.
New subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Query regarding copying and executing files inside guest OS
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:12 AM Pravin Amin <Pravin.Amin(a)veritas.com> wrote:
Your description is still scarce of words, but it seems that it can be
handled by ssh into ever-running VMs.
Is there a problem with that approach?
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