[Users] Virtual Machine Provisiong

Thu Oct 11 12:42:13 UTC 2012

On Oct 11, 2012, at 14:28 , Marco Mornati wrote:

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> > hmmm
> > If it needs to be really unattended you either have to attach the right disk with install ISO and supply(point to) the desired kickstart? You'd need to have a template only per each OS install iso.
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> > Yes exactly. And the "iso" file could be a net address (for example directly on the centos servers). And you could have more than one kickstart per iso (that is the list proposed to the oVirt user):\
> so - can you do that already by supplying these on kernel boot line - in Edit VM dialog? I thin that should work.
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> I tried but it does not work. For what I understood (but I didn't find lot of doc about this) the 3 parameters are used to specify kernel information but for an already installed machine. Means for example that the Kernel and Initd location should already be on the vm disk. I tried putting a remote location but my machine wouldn't start up... So I think I can't use the kernel parameters in oVirt
so then a combination of these?
PXE with kernel per each OS. Split it to some MAC groups  based on that, something like 00:00:00:00:00:xx would boot Fedora 17 kernel, 00:00:00:00:01:xx would boot Centos.
You manually manage the MAC assignemnet when you create the VM using CLI/SDK
Then customizable ks with desired packages in some network location, you point to these on kernel cmdline

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> Marco
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> > Centos6 64 bit 10GB disk lvm no selinux
> > Centos6 64 bit All avaiable disk space
> > Centos6 64 bit with puppet and mcollective
> > ....
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> > Marco
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> > > 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:
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> > > > 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.
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> > > 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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