Hi Eric, I have not tried it, but your use case reminds me of Amazon Elastic IP. Maybe you can allocate an IP, associate it with the old VM and when your new VM is ready, disassociate and reassociate with the new VM. It does not change the IP, but maps one to a running VM.
I believe these ec2 API calls are available via cloudbridge. -Sebastien On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Eric Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a clean way to manually modify the IP address of an existing > Cloudstack VM in basic networking mode? I'm not seeing anything in the API > that looks like what I want exactly. I could mangle the DB manually and > trigger a re-push to the virtual router, but that seems a bit ugly… > > I see references to the IP in the following tables: > > nics > usage_event > user_ip_address > vm_instance > > Here's my use case: I am performing a conversion from a set of legacy block > device backed open source Xen VMs in to Cloudstack/vSphere for a Dev/QA lab. > My process is currently to create a VM in CS with the same base OS, then run > my magic rsync script that pushes everything from the old VM to the new one > (fixing things like fstab, mtab, network config, and grub.cfg along the way). > Then I'll shut down the old VM, and I'd like to assign the old IP to the new > CS VM. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Thanks much in advance. > > Eric Reeves -- --- Sebastien Goasguen, Associate Professor Clemson University, USA 864-553-4734 http://sites.google.com/site/runseb/
