Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address)

From: "Messaoud Benantar" <mbenanta(a)us.ibm.com&gt; To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:02:46 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address) Andrew -- thanks for the reply. Since <guest_info> of a <vm> is not modifiable, is there a way to set a VM's IP address. This seems like a really needed functionality when provisioning VMs through the Rest API. Regards, Messaoud Benantar From: Andrew Cathrow <acathrow(a)redhat.com&gt; To: Messaoud Benantar/Austin/IBM@IBMUS Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Date: 03/13/2012 01:30 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address) ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Messaoud Benantar" <mbenanta(a)us.ibm.com&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:13:25 PM > Subject: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address) > > > Hi everyone, > i am using the vmanager's 3.0 Rest API. > have created a VM from an existing template (using http POST) and > been trying to find a way to set the VMs ip address > with no success. I tried supplying the ip address in the > <guest_info> > element during VM creation as in: > <guest_info> > <ips> > <ip address="x.x.x.x"/> > </ips> > </guest_info> That's a read only property that shows the IP address of the virtual machine reported by the in-guest agent. There's discussion going on about how we pass a payload to a VM that can handle things like in-guest configuration http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/VMPayload > > But the created VM ends up with the same ip address as that in the > template. > > Anyone attempted to do something similar ? Is there another way of > doing it. I tried the nics API but there seem to be no interface > to modify a nic's ip address. > > Thank you. > > > Regards, > Messaoud Benantar > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >