[Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong

[Marco Mornati]

Hello,

yep template could be a solution, but means we need to have machine that
are quite similar.
What I'd like to do, and presents to user, is a list of "profiles"
(Centos6, RHEL6, Fedora17, etc.) and any profile has a "kickstart"
associated that indicates iso source, which base packages should be
installed, etc.
That is exactly what we have today with a PXE installation, but the only
things is that I cannot invoke an automatic installation within a script.

To be clear, here yuo are what I'm traying in this moment:

https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/RHEV-M_Setup?version=52

And if someone has aeolus experience and suggestions is welcome :D

Marco

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Michal Skrivanek <
michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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