On 05/25/2013 02:07 AM, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested to know whether it is possible to obtain a VM's name from within a VM. In particular I'd like to obtain VM names from within Linux guests for the purpose of setting up dynamic DNS based on the VM name. I don't see the VM name in the output of dmidecode and there doesn't appear to be an entry in the ovirt guest API to obtain it. (In any case I can't run the ovirt guest agent on my VMs, so I'd like some other way to get it.)
Thanks!
greg is working on cloud-init support[1] which should take care of both passing this info to linux guests (and maybe solve the ddns issue as well while at it - greg?) in the meantime, you could try and do this manually by passing it via the vm payload field, which is mounted to the guest as a block device. [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+t...