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

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/16/2012 11:55 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Oved Ourfalli<ovedo at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- 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.
>
> 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.

yes, that's what the following sentence tries to hint at... "In the 
future also injection and payload via private IP"