[libvirt] Userdata for libvirt?

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 17 18:07:27 UTC 2010


2010/3/17 Yushu Yao <yao.yushu at gmail.com>:
> Hi Experts,
>
> Forgive me if not clear enough, will try to be describe what I need.
>
> What I need: Start a VM on a remote libvirtd server based on an existing image (Might or might not exist on server), plus some userdata.
>
> It is pretty much the same like EC2 or Eucalyptus, but we need to run on our private cluster with only libvirtd. (Eucalyptus doesn't support using physical disk in VMs, that is what we need).
>
> I went through the Remote Libvirt control section of the Documentation, but couldn't find a way to pass the userdata to the VM started.
>
> Does libvirtd already include such feature of do I need to make my own.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Yushu
>

What exactly do you mean if you refer to userdata?

And what exactly do you mean if you say you want to pass it do a guest?

Matthias




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