Re: [Users] Obtain VM name from within VM?
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:maste...