[one-users] How to customize contents of the deployment file

[KC LO]

Dear Carlos,

Thanks for your advise and suggestions.

The reason that I want to change the VM guest name is that I want to use my
customer service ID for each VM.  For every customer subscribe our VM, we
will provide our customer number(similar to telephone number concept) as
reference.  It helps for future billing and support communication.  If we
use one-<id> as reference, we need to cross-check with Opennebula DB.  If
the DB got problem, we will lose all customer subscription info.

When I use SunStone to create Virtual Machines, it will ask the Virtual
Machines name. Where will it store this variable so that I can use it to
replace the server name of the deployment file.

Thanks

On 2 July 2012 21:02, Carlos Martín Sánchez <cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The easiest way to add any attributes to the deployment file is using the
> RAW attribute inside the VM template [1].
>
> Setting the OpenNebula VM name in the deployment file is not a good idea,
> because the VM id is unique, but the name isn't.
> Anyway, if you really need to overwrite attributes set by OpenNebula, you
> can change the /var/lib/one/<id>/deployment.0 file before the deployment is
> actually made, modifying the /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/xen/deploy script.
> The file is actually created by the core, if you are willing to recompile,
> take a look at src/vmm/XenDriver.cc [2].
>
> Regards
>
> [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.4:xeng#additional_attributes
> [2]
> http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/vmm/XenDriver.cc
>
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula<http://twitter.com/opennebula><cmartin at opennebula.org>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:45 PM, KC LO <kclo2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed Opennebula 3.4 and using Xen as hypervisor.  I have
>> setup that it can deploy VM guest host.
>> I want to customize contents of the deployment file like the VM guest
>> name.  The default is using one-<id>.
>> I want to change the name so that it is same as the name I use VM
>> creation under SunStone and other parameters of the deployment file.
>>
>> Any ideas!
>>
>>
>>
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