[one-users] Virtual machine hostname contextualization

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

We changed a bit the VM template for 4.0 and it looks like we broke this.
The fix is simple, so it will be included in the final release [1].

Thanks for testing the beta!

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1915

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester <
giga at le-pec.org> wrote:

>   Hi,
>   Thank you for your reply and your patience. Unfortunately it does not
> work. I am using OpenNebula 4.0 beta (3.9.80). Maybe it is a regression ?
>   Regards,
>
> On Monday 15 April 2013 12:47:29 Campbell, Bill wrote:
> > Sorry, that was a misunderstanding of the question.  I misread in how we
> define HOSTNAME=<some random name here> in the contextualization script.
> >
> > If you want to use the hostname, then add this as your context variable:
> >
> > HOSTNAME=$NAME
> >
> > That should do it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester" <giga at le-pec.org>
> > To: "Bill Campbell" <bcampbell at axcess-financial.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:22:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [one-users] Virtual machine hostname contextualization
> >
> >    Hi,
> >    I have not seen anything in the 3.8 contextualization package that
> > would use a variable named HOSTNAME, nor anything that would actually
> > change the hostname.
> >    Also, I have not found how to automatically fill a contextualization
> > variable with the actual name of the VM.
> >    For example
> > CONTEXT=[
> >    TEST="$VMID" ]
> >    in the vm template will be correctly replaced by
> > TEST="55"
> >    in the generated context.sh for the instantiated VM. But
> > CONTEXT=[
> >    TEST="$HOSTNAME" ]
> >    will not result in anything in context.sh.
> >    Regards,
> >
> > On 15/04/2013 14:57, Campbell, Bill wrote:
> > > Should just be the HOSTNAME variable.  So long as your VM template
> > > has the contextualization packages installed it should take that
> > > variable and apply the appropriate hostname on boot.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester" <giga at le-pec.org>
> > > To: users at lists.opennebula.org
> > > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:23:58 AM
> > > Subject: [one-users] Virtual machine hostname contextualization
> > >
> > >   Hi,
> > >   I am currently experimenting on opennebula 4.0 beta to satisfy my
> > > personal curiosity. I was thinking of creating a non-persistent image
> > > with a basic Debian installation, a chef-client, and just enough
> > > contextualization to let the VM connect to the chef server and
> > > configure itself.
> > >   However, I did not find any contexualization variable for the
> > > template that would be replaced by the name of the instantiated VM.
> > > Is
> > > there such a variable ?
> > >   Regards,
> >
> >
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> Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester
>
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