[Users] Passing a hint/message to a VM when it boots

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/16/2012 03:05 PM, Kyrre Begnum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when creating a new VM from a template, i'd like to pass a hint of some
> sort ( perhaps a hostname ) to it so that the internal config managment
> system can do the rest of the setup. This should also be programmable
> via the REST API, as I want to use it for automated deployments.
>
> Has anyone had success doing this with Ovirt? i can only see two
> approaches:
>
> - Put the hint in a floppy / iso and mount it on the VM.
> - Hardcode a MAC address and let a DHCP server provide the hostname

did you try the kernel boot options?

>
> Both of these do not seem very optimal to me. I'd appreciate some
> thoughts from the community on how to proceed.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> k
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users