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

[Cole Robinson]

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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