[Users] Pseudo Guest Agent for unsupported VM distro

[Markus Stockhausen]

> Von: Itamar Heim [iheim at redhat.com]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. April 2014 15:23
> An: Markus Stockhausen; ovirt-users
> Betreff: Re: [Users] Pseudo Guest Agent for unsupported VM distro
> 
> 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?

My problem is, that generating a working agent on SLES 11 is more than just a 
make command. I drove into several errors (especially path specific) so I asked 
about its state in february and the negative answer was:  "... SLES was attempted ...". 
More see here:

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/021503.html

So I reduced my requirements and searched a way to populate the columns
IP and hostname in OVirt. This should be not more than doing an "echo ..."
into the serial port.

Markus
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