[ovirt-users] VM autoconfiguration

[Shahar Havivi]

On 24.09.14 12:37, J. Mikulec wrote:
> I spent a day with testing and went into two situations:
> - cloud-init set up everything except root password
> - cloud-init set up everything except network
> 
> What does it mean? Let me explain:
> 
> When I remove HWADDR from ifcfg-eth0 in template, everything works (network,
> ssh with key), but can't login through console or ssh with password. So I
> think it is not set.
I guess that if you cannot login via ssh/console cloud-init encounter some
problem and didn't set the password, this may be oVirts problem.
> 
> When I forgot to remove HWADDR line, root password is set but network not
> work ofcourse. I added custom command with runcmd to remove this line and
> restart network - everything works. Stupid hack ...
> 
> So root password cloud-init setting depends on network settings. Is this
> cloud-init bug?
I assume that we are talking about cloud-init 0.7.2,
What version of oVirt are you using?
I will try to reproduce it with rhel/fedora.

  Shahar.


> 
> Jiri
> 
> Dne 23.9.2014 v 8:30 Shahar Havivi napsal(a):
> >On 22.09.14 19:37, J. Mikulec wrote:
> >>Hello again,
> >>
> >>Centos 7:
> >>
> >>Everything works except network needs manually restart to work (but config
> >>is done by cloud-init). Is workaround to send custom command through
> >>cloud-init to restart network service?
> >I think there is an open bug in cloud-init package:
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139556
> >>
> >>It also neither do not setup resolv.conf nor add DNS settings to ifcfg-eth0
> >>(workaround may be to let this settings in ifcfg-eth0 filled from template)
> >>
> >>Jiri
> >>
> >>Dne 22.9.2014 v 16:30 Shahar Havivi napsal(a):
> >>>On 22.09.14 16:22, J. Mikulec wrote:
> >>>>Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>I followed instructions at
> >>>>http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cloud-Init_Integration
> >>>>It works fine for Fedora, but it not works properly for Centos 6.5 and 7
> >>>>(for example network settings changed, hostname only in one of them, system
> >>>>start waiting for password in 6.5 etc.) - which are most common distros for
> >>>>us.
> >>>>
> >>>>It seems to be problematically (by design ?) at future.
> >>>>
> >>>>So - is another alternative of cloud-init (maybe with more coding and
> >>>>configuring) for automatically assign IP settings, hostname and root
> >>>>password?
> >>>Please post the version and log of cloud-init,
> >>>If the version is more then 0.7.2 you can try to downgrade to this version.
> >>>
> >>>   Shahar.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks, Jiri
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