[Users] Pseudo Guest Agent for unsupported VM distro

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 04/06/2014 05:43 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
>> 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)
Yes, this is one of the things which had to be fixed for SLES. If it 
would be only running a make command on SLES we would have already 
provided the guest agent.

>   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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