[Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong

Oved Ourfalli ovedo at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 11:26:36 UTC 2012


Hey Marco.

I see. My mistake...
We don't have such a feature built-in yet, but I guess there may be other 3rd party products that integrate with oVirt in order to do so.
Let's wait for other people to answer this thread.

Oved

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marco Mornati" <mornatim at gmail.com>
> To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:09:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong
> 
> 
> Hello Oved,
> 
> 
> thanks for your response, but, for me, provisioning means "Install
> Operating System and other packages". Is it possibile to do this
> directly using oVirt? I didn't find anything about it and that's the
> resason why I'm looking for others tools.
> By and I can just start oVirt VM in "Run Once" mode, and putting the
> mac address in my PXE installation could start automatically.
> Problem is that I need to modify my PXE to create an automatic
> system. That's the reason puu me to look for anything else.
> 
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Oved Ourfalli < ovedo at redhat.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> oVirt exposes REST API that allows you to perform almost every
> operation in the oVirt engine, including provisioning, monitoring,
> performing different actions on the different entities, and etc.
> 
> We also have both SDK and CLI, which are based on this REST API.
> 
> Useful wiki pages:
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Architecture
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/CLI
> 
> and I guess you'll find more pages on ovirt.org .
> 
> Good luck,
> Oved
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marco Mornati" < mornatim at gmail.com >
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:09:53 PM
> > Subject: [Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong
> > 
> > 
> > Hello guys,
> > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to integrate an automatic provisioning to my oVirt
> > installation. Something like: API to create VM, NIC and Disk, tool
> > to install SO (??).
> > 
> > 
> > I'm actually working around aeolus (after a useless test with
> > koan),
> > but I'm not sure I can do what I want. I prefer not to use a PXE to
> > get all things really automatic (something cloud style).
> > 
> > 
> > Have you got any idea, suggestion and/or guide about it?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > Marco
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