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

[Andrew Cathrow]

Not today, the guest would usually just pickup from DHCP
But that's the purpose of the VMPayload feature that's being discussed - a way to pass arbitrary data/config to the VM

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Messaoud Benantar" <mbenanta at us.ibm.com>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at 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 at redhat.com>
> To: Messaoud Benantar/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Date: 03/13/2012 01:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Messaoud Benantar" <mbenanta at us.ibm.com>
> > To: users at 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
> > 
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