Re: Creating or customising OS type

[ilya musayev <il...@gmail.com>]

Marcus,

I was away for a bit and missed this message, i'll be standing up KVM 
environments soon and can try this commit - though it may take some time.

Thank you,

Regards
ilya
On 4/24/14, 2:58 AM, Marcus wrote:
> I have an agent for you to try. you can force install the RPM over the 
> top of your existing 4.3 one and restart the agent. If you have an 
> issue you can just reinstall the stock RPM and restart the agent 
> again. It reads the details per Ilya's register template method, if 
> they don't exist it does the default thing.
>
> http://marcus.mlsorensen.com/cloudstack-extras/nux/cloudstack-agent-4.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> If that works I can commit the fix. It worked for me, but I was 
> testing master.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Marcus <shadowsor@gmail.com 
> <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I see you mention 4.3, is it your own build or from the release
>     artifacts?
>
>
>     On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Marcus <shadowsor@gmail.com
>     <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Guest OS types that will get Virtio disks include:
>
>         Ubuntu
>         Fedora
>         CentOS
>         RedHat 6
>         Debian
>         Other PV
>
>         And unfortunately, they also get virtio nics since they both
>         run the OS through the same isPVEnabled() method to decide
>         between hardware.
>
>         This random "details" parameter is kind of interesting. I'll
>         have to see if it gets passed along with StartCommand. I
>         really dislike the trend of using a 'details' dumping ground
>         for undocumented tweaks, but if it's already something that
>         VMware is using then we could parse the details for the same
>         info, if it's being passed along.
>
>         What version of cloudstack are you using? And what OS is the
>         guest agent running on?
>
>
>
>         On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:42 PM, ilya musayev
>         <ilya.mailing.lists@gmail.com
>         <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             I'm KVM useless, perhaps Marcus knows the way.
>
>             My mysql output is very different from yours btw.
>
>             Regards
>             ilya
>
>             On 4/23/14, 4:44 AM, Nux! wrote:
>
>                 On 23.04.2014 11:35, Nux! wrote:
>
>                         2) If you building out the VMs via templates,
>                         when you go through
>                         import process, you can try altering
>                         vm_details tag. For example this
>                         is how i did it in cloudmonkey:
>                         register template format=ova hypervisor=vmware
>                         name=OL63-26-TMPLT
>                         url=http://reposerver.example.com/6.3-26/ol-6.3-26.ova
>                         ispublic=true
>                         isfeatured=true passwordenabled=false
>                         details[0].rootDiskController=scsi
>                         details[0].nicAdapter=E1000
>                         details[0].keyboard=us ostypeid=148 zoneid=-1
>                         displaytext=OL63-26-TMPLT
>                         see if you can change
>                         details[0].rootDiskController=scsi to
>                         details[0].rootDiskController=virtio
>
>
>                     I'll go this route and see if it helps. Thanks a lot!
>
>
>                 I can confirm it doesn't work, but thank you anyway,
>                 it was worth trying. :-)
>
>                 Lucian
>
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