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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello mailing list,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I built a small application that uses the OCCI and EC2 interface to automatically start and delete Virtual Machines in my private OpenNebula cloud. Each VM runs a service that reports how busy a certain VM actually is. Using this service, my application creates and deletes VMs depending on the overall load of the cluster.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now, my problem is that I always want to delete the VM with the lowest load, but the application does not know the VM to which a particular service belongs. Therefore, I need to know the VM ID, which has been assigned automatically by OpenNebula, from inside a running VM. Then, each service could also report the VM ID to my application so that it can delete the right VM.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there a way to query this VM ID from inside the VM? Or can I configure OpenNebula to automatically store the VM ID in, for example, a text file inside a VM when it creates the VM? It would also help if the application could query an IP-to-VM ID mapping from OpenNebula, if such a mapping exists for VMs that are created with bridged DHCP network access.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks for your help in advance,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thorsten Papenbrock<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>