On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 14:10 -0400, Alvin Starr wrote: > > > This may be a stupid idea but what about a metadata server? > > > Since libvirt does the network setup it should be possible for libvirt to > > > add in some iptables rules to redirect requests to a simple metadata server > > > running alongside libvirtd. > > > The metadata could be encoded in the vm's xml file. > > > > We don't really want to hardcode knowledge about the cloud-init protocol > > in libvirt. So any such setup needs to be done by the layer above libvirt, > > using the libvirt APIs that exist as the mechanism. > > I can understand that. > Are there any APIs that allow for the manipulation of the network > interfaces or provide call-outs to other tools? > > If the xml VM definition is all that is needed to start a VM is there > any way to get the xml definition hold information that is used by > other tools without having to keep parallel databases of VM's. All that metadata system looks like what a configuration manager like salt & friends could do. -- Cedric _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
