[Users] Invoking guest os script, without guest having network connectivity?

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/23/2012 01:48 PM, Shlomi Tsadok wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to configure the guest networking(including IP)
> dynamically, using a custom script, right after VM creation.
>
> Is there a similar feature in oVirt as the Invoke-VMScript in of
> VMware's PowerCLI? It allows you to run a script in the guest OS, even
> before the guest has networking connectivity ( the host talks to the
> vmtools agent that's  installed in the guest).

currently, you can attach to the guest a "payload", and have a script in 
the guest expecting that payload and acting on it (which is what 
cloud-init does).

>
> Native KVM/libvirt option will be good as well.

if kvm/libvirt allow it, you can use a custom vdsm hook as well.

>
> Thanks,
> Shlomi
>
> Invoke-VMScript reference:
> http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk40u1/html/Invoke-VMScript.html
>
>
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