[Users] Linux sysprep

[Itamar Heim]

On 08/22/2013 10:19 AM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
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> Hm, for some strange reason I can PUT the payloads XML to a specific vm
> without any errors using REST-API, but it seems to never really update
> the vm definition (when testing with GET payloads is missing again and
> no cd in my vm). PUT for e.g. usb definitions is working fine (system is
> oVirt 3.2).
>
> Anyway, I don't have enough time at the moment to investigate this
> further, so I use Yuriy's script (thanks!) and add the hostname via SKU
> number. But will maybe play with vm payloads later again.
>
> If anyone is interested in the scripts, feel free to use them:
> https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/sysprep_linux
> (please note that these will only work for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/other
> clones)
>

iirc, that's by design actually... since the payload may contain 
passwords for sysprep, etc...
so do the PUT and check its there by launching the VM