[one-users] VM description/comment
Daniel Molina
dmolina at opennebula.org
Wed Oct 24 02:58:20 PDT 2012
On 24 October 2012 11:08, <knawnd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Molina wrote on 23/10/12 20:23:
>
> On 23 October 2012 14:31, <knawnd at gmail.com <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ruben,
>>
>> first of all, sorry for delay with reply!
>> Please, see my comments inline.
>>
>> Ruben S. Montero wrote on 19/10/12 00:34:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> sounds encouraging! Is any information when such feature is planned
>> to be implemented?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> seems reasonable
>>
>> 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 a lot for detailed reply and explanations!
>>
>>
>> JFYI You can easily add new columns to the onevm list command. The
>> following patch adds a new DESCRIPTION column to the onevm list output:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/**8f8499704cbee0e5db84<https://gist.github.com/8f8499704cbee0e5db84>
>>
>> The onevm.yaml can be defined per user in $HOME/.one/onevm.yaml or
>> globally in /etc/one/cli/onevm.yaml
>>
> Hi Daniel,
> Thanks for your patch and efforts!
> But I wasn't able to archive desired behavior.
>
> I did the following changes:
> $ diff /usr/lib/one/ruby/cli/one_**helper/onevm_helper.rb{,.orig}
> 138,141d137
> < column :DESCRIPTION, "DESCRIPTION", :size=>12 do |d|
> < d["TEMPLATE"]["DESCRIPTION"]
> < end
> <
> 143c139
> < :TIME, :DESCRIPTION
> ---
> > :TIME
>
> $ cp /etc/one/cli/onevm.yaml ~/.one/
>
Sorry I sent you a wrong path, use this instead
$ mkdir ~/.one/cli/
$ cp /etc/one/cli/onevm.yaml ~/.one/cli/
> $ diff ~/.one/onevm.yaml /etc/one/cli/onevm.yaml
> 42,46d41
> < :DESCRIPTION:
> < :desc: DESCRIPTION
> < :size: 20
> <
> <
> 57d51
> < - :DESCRIPTION
>
> With help of 'onetemplate update' command I added DESCRIPTION parameter
> $ onetemplate show 5|grep -i description
> DESCRIPTION="description"
>
> and instantiate a VM based on that template.
>
> Although 'onevm show <VMID>' shows the presence of DESCRIPTION parameter
> 'onevm list' doesn't show DESCRIPTION column (neither column name nor
> content).
>
> 'one stop' and 'one start' didn't help.
>
> If you have any guess why it is so then please share it.
>
> Regards,
> Nikolay.
>
>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nikolay.
>>
>>
>> THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM, <knawnd at gmail.com <mailto:
>> knawnd at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://NAME.domain.org> <
>> http://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>
>> <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com>>
>> <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com <mailto:knawnd at gmail.com>
>> <mailto: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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>> Project co-Lead and Chief Architect
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>> Virtualization
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