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

[Ohad Levy]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Oved Ourfalli <ovedo at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- 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)
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>> 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.

Would you consider exposing it via rest service as well? similar to
how amazon allows to consume user data?
This would allow a more structured data, and less requirement on the
guest it self.

thanks,
Ohad
>
> Regards,
> Oved
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Messaoud Benantar
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>> 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)
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>> 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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