[Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Oct 11, 2012, at 13:26 , Oved Ourfalli wrote:

> 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.
well, if you want to select packages, etc., how would you present that to the user in ovirt GUI? 
Isn't it essentially the same as installing a VM with whatever you need using the desired OS installation method/GUI and save it as a template? And then deploy the template and do minor customizations (e.g. hostname change). We do plan to have support for such things in near future - we already have sysprep for Windows guests.

Thanks,
michal

>> 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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