[one-users] OpenNebula + DHCP

Tue Nov 30 00:10:39 PST 2010

Hi, I have this problem and I tried that solution, but how do you do to 
configure the VM image to use DHCP, is it in the context scripts?
Thanks,

Leonardo

El 30/11/2010 8:24, Manish Sapariya escribió:
> +1
> This is exactly what I do. The downside for
> me is that I do not control the DHCP server
> and it brings its own problems, mostly operational.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
>
> On 11/30/2010 5:36 AM, Carsten.Friedrich at csiro.au wrote:
>> There is (at least) one more, which I think is the most general and easy to run once set up, if:
>>
>> * You want the VMs to be part of your general network.
>> * You have a DHCP server in your general network.
>> * You have a fixed set of addresses you want to VMs to use and which are not used by any other machines on the network.
>>
>> Then:
>>
>> * Create a bridge on all cloud nodes with the same name (e.g. br0) and bind the NICs on each server to it.
>> * Create a OpenNebula virtual network with fixed, free addresses like:
>> NAME = "Small network"
>> TYPE = FIXED
>>
>> BRIDGE = br0
>> LEASES = [ IP="x.y.z.65"]
>> LEASES = [ IP="x.y.z.66"]
>> LEASES = [ IP="x.y.z.67"]
>> LEASES = [ IP="x.y.z.72"]
>> LEASES = [ IP="x.y.z.73"]
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> * Add entries to your DHCP server binding the MAC address OpenNebula will generate for the VM to the corresponding fixed IP. (the MAC address will be a configurable prefix + the IP address in hex).
>> * Configure your VM images to use DHCP.
>>
>> Now, when you start a VM, it will get a MAC address from OpenNebula (no context necessary) and then an IP address from your DHCP server.
>>
>> Carsten
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org  [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Ruben S. Montero
>> Sent: Monday, 29 November 2010 6:32
>> To: SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
>> Cc:users at lists.opennebula.org
>> Subject: Re: [one-users] Opennebula + DHCP
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> There are three options to set up networking for a VM:
>>
>> 1.- Use static IPs, i.e hard-coded in the VM image. This is useful for
>> "well-known" services, but usually people do not use this approach as
>> it prevents an "install once deploy many" strategy
>>
>> 2.- Use specialized networking VMs,  that runs a DHCP server and
>> probably any other network related services (DNS, VPN server, routers,
>> proxy of any kind). This is useful for VM packs, where you define
>> vnets. Vnets in OpenNebula can be implemented with ebtables (works
>> out-of-the-box, see [1]) and with VLAN at the switch level (either
>> setting the vnets before hand, or with a hook to configure the swtich,
>> e.g. openvswitch)
>>
>> 3.- Context. Context is not just for passing network config parameters
>> but also for basic service configuration attributes (e.g. ssh keys).
>> This is  the best approach for stand-alone VMs and probably also for
>> the virtual network example. It only requires to prepare network configuration
>> script of the OS to get the IP from the context device.
>>
>> However, the best approach should be more or less clear depending on
>> the use-case you are trying to deploy, the networking of your cloud...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>> [1]http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:nm
>>
>> 2010/11/28 SZÉKELYI Szabolcs<szekelyi at niif.hu>:
>>> On 2010. November 27. 18:01:24 Steven Timm wrote:
>>>> I have never used opennebula with a dhcp server but I think you would
>>>> have either have to use the contextualization scripts to pass in
>>>> a modified ifcfg-eth0 that calls for DHCP address, or save a special
>>>> original image that has them already.  Also you would have to configure
>>>> the onevnet so you knew which range of MAC addresses your machines were
>>>> going to have.
>>> Being badly dissatisfied with "contextualization" (there's no ifcfg-eth0 on
>>> Debian-based systems for example, not mentioning non-GNU/Linux OSes), we
>>> solved this problem by implementing DHCP on our virtual networks. On VM
>>> creation, a hook script registers the MAC address and the IP address in the
>>> DHCP server that assigns it to the VM upon DHCP request. This requires the
>>> machine running the DHCP server (or a DHCP relay) to have an interface in the
>>> network used for VMs, but this is usually not a problem as long as you use
>>> 802.1q tagged virtual networks. This can be implemented for ebtables-based
>>> vnets as well, but requires a bit tricker setup.
>>>
>>> I can provide you with more deatils or even code if interested, but currently
>>> I don't have time to make proper redistributable and configurable packages.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> cc
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Tim Bordemann wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently evaluating Opennebula for a university's project.
>>>>> So far I installed Opennebula and am able to start virtual machines on
>>>>> the server nodes.
>>>>> Unfortunately I am not sure, how to configure Opennebula or the virtual
>>>>> machine template so that the vm gets it's IP address from the
>>>>> DHCP-server. Could anyone please send me a sample vm template?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
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