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

[Oved Ourfalli]

----- 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 10:15:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address)
> 
> 
> Andrew -
> Unfortunately in our case we assign ip-addresses from a static pool.
> So i understand the VMPayload feature will include setting up
> <gues_info> ip-address, right?
> Sorry that i have not read any info regarding this functionality --
> when will it be available? Thanks.
> 
Details on the VMPayload feature can be found in http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/VMPayload
Basically, the purpose of the feature is to allow passing a payload to a guest upon startup, exposed as either a CD or Floppy device.
So, you can use this in order to pass configuration information to the guest.

Regards,
Oved

> 
> 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 03:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Rest API for vmanager 3.0 (set VM ip address)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- 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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