[virt-tools-list] passing metadata to virt-manager or vmm

[Abdi Ibrahim]

Yeah thx! It's a one time setup tags and primarily to identify which tenant
the vm belongs to so no need to tweak it during the instance life cycle.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:

> Interesting, sounds cool :) Are these bits a one time setup thing or do
> they
> need to be tweaked for an existing VM?
>
> - Cole
>
> On 01/19/2016 11:10 AM, Abdi Ibrahim wrote:
> > ​there is a process running on the hypervisor (kvm in my case) watching
> for VM
> > events (launch, destroy, stop etc...) and reads the domain xml file to
> trigger
> > a configuration management workflow. For example there is a tag for
> tenant
> > name and ID (OpenStack) and when the VM is shutdown or rebooted the
> process
> > notifies a Consul cluster (Hashicorp) for monitoring purposes. Hope this
> make
> > sense. ​
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com
> > <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     What types of metadata are you adding?
> >
> >     - Cole
> >
> >     On 01/19/2016 11:00 AM, Abdi Ibrahim wrote:
> >     > Yeah... I'm aware of that but students are given vmm access against
> >     > hypervisors in order to launch instances/domains but no ssh
> access. Folks are
> >     > from vmware infrastructure where there is a familiarity on vSphere
> Client with
> >     > all options available on the UI. Will continue with virt-install
> with custom
> >     > xml file to include any metadata.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for the response tho... much appreciated.
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Cole Robinson <
> crobinso at redhat.com <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>
> >     > <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     On 01/18/2016 01:24 PM, Abdi Ibrahim wrote:
> >     >     > Just wondering if it is possible to pass metadata to the
> >     virt-manager (GUI
> >     >     > client) instead of using the virsh command.
> >     >     >
> >     >
> >     >     Outside of the basic bits like description and title, there
> isn't any
> >     >     virt-manager support. We should add more support to
> >     virt-install/virt-xml
> >     >     though...
> >     >
> >     >     - Cole
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
>
>
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