[one-users] VM description/comment

Thu Oct 18 13:34:14 PDT 2012

Hi Ricardo + Nikolay

You are right, one thing we have in our short roadmap is to add a generic
metada section for VMs. This metadata could be updated using the *update*
functionality currently present for other commands.

Just to give you the rationale behind not having this yet. As you probably
know the VM template is extended once the VM created with control data
(e.g. DISK_ID's, specifric LEASES, SOURCE for DISK...) for obvious reasons
we do not want a user to modify this. So we will split this in two, one for
the control data and other to be used/modified by the user.

For now, as Nikolay suggests this limit somehow part of the out-of-the-box
functionality (e.g. adding DESCRIPTION in  a bulk submission), this
functionality will need a custom program using OCA. About parsing the out
put of onevm show, note that you can always get the full pool information
with onevm list -x  (TEMPLATE included) the onevm list command just parse
and pick some of this info and present it in a tabular form...

THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM, <knawnd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ruben,
>
> Ruben S. Montero wrote on 17/10/12 14:42:
>
>  Hi
>>
>> Why not using the name of the VM for this?.....
>>
> The name of the VM I would like to use to put hostname in it and perhaps
> use $NAME in contextualization as e.g.
>
> CONTEXT=[
>   HOSTNAME="$NAME.domain.org" ]
>
> But that would make a sense in case when one could be possible to specify
> IP address in 'onetemplate instantiate' command.
>
>
>  Also if you want to append any arbitrary data to the VM (at creation) you
>> can simply added to the VM template as:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION="this is a web server, use 1234 as root password"
>>
>> This will be stored in the template ans can be queried with the onevm
>> show command or in the Template tab in Sunstone
>>
> As far as I understand that will work for a creation of a single VM but
> won't if I need to create a bunch of VMs with help of 'onetemplate
> instantiate' command.
> Is there any way to modify certain deployed VM's config to add arbitrary
> data like e.g. DESCRIPTION field (something like 'onevm update')?
> Moreover, in my opinion it's not convenient to parse the output of 'onevm
> show' command when I need to get a list of all VMs e.g. what have a word
> "web" in its description. It would be more convenient to have a separate
> column for that as I wrote before. But probably to do that there is a need
> to modify DB schema which is not desirable I guess.
>
> Regards,
> Nikolay.
>
>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:02 PM, <knawnd at gmail.com <mailto:
>> knawnd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear list,
>>
>>     I wonder if there is any way to specify some text as a
>> description/comment for a certain VM in
>>     order to be able toquery such info later e.g. during 'onevm list'
>> command execution. I just
>>     don't want to get lost in all my VMs and which one is for what.
>>     I would like to have something like
>>     $ onevm list
>>         ID USER     GROUP    NAME            STAT UCPU UMEM HOST
>>     TIME    DESCRIPTION
>>         11 oneadmin oneadmin one-11          runn 100 1G <host1> 0d 02h07
>>            web-server
>>         12 oneadmin oneadmin one-12          runn 1001G <host1> 0d 02h03
>>            mail-server
>>         13 oneadmin oneadmin one-13          runn    100  1G <host2> 0d
>> 00h17               development server
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Nikolay.
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>

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