[Users] Pseudo Guest Agent for unsupported VM distro

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 04/06/2014 03:23 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 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?
The gap I am attempting to close at the moment is the commands which 
need elevated rights, like shutdown, reboot etc
On other systems there is polkit or usermode (aka consolehelper) however 
in the SLES case I would have to use sudo.
This is all prepared, however now I have to apply some finishing 
touches. I hope to get the package on my build.opensuse.org repository 
within this week.
>
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