[Users] Pseudo Guest Agent for unsupported VM distro

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Sun Apr 6 13:23:29 UTC 2014


On 04/06/2014 12:19 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from my understanding it should be possible to provide an absolute
> minimalistic guest agent functionality by writing a 5-liner that fills some
> basic info into the virto serial device within the guest VM. At least from
> what I can read in the source at github or the docs:
>
> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-guest-agent/tree/master/ovirt-guest-agent
> http://www.ovirt.org/images/2/20/Ovirt-guest-agent.pdf
>
> Currently I'm interested to provide the most simple data: IP address
> & FQDN for our SLES 11 guests (no guest agent yet). I tried to understand
> what I must write into the serial device but there is no change in the VM
> overview panel. Different combinations did not provide any success.
>
> Maybe someone can send the syntax for the two required echo commands.

what's the gap in SLES from the OpenSUSE one that does work iiuc?




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