Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On Apr 8, 2014, at 15:46 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: That's a nice theory you've got there... :) I'd think a little script management would go a long way until you have _every_ possible use case in the system. :) it's not about every possible use case, it's about keeping the code working. Letting hooks go wild and unmaintained is not a good idea… There were discussions on mailing list about having a nice interface in UI for hooks but as far as I remember it was always turned down Though I personally would welcome at least a monitoring of deployed hooks somewhere in the UI… Thanks, michal As a developer I find at some point I always get talked into adding that extra bit of flexibility even though no user should ever need it. They always find something I never thought of. btw, do I put feature requests in bugzilla, or is there some other place? Thanks for all of the help. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 23:04 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help. you're not supposed to need a hook under normal circumstances, when the functionality is useful enough it should be built into vdsm natively...well, that's in progress for this one for 3.4.1:) Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On 04/09/2014 09:47 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: On Apr 8, 2014, at 15:46 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: That's a nice theory you've got there... :) I'd think a little script management would go a long way until you have _every_ possible use case in the system. :) it's not about every possible use case, it's about keeping the code working. Letting hooks go wild and unmaintained is not a good idea… There were discussions on mailing list about having a nice interface in UI for hooks but as far as I remember it was always turned down Though I personally would welcome at least a monitoring of deployed hooks somewhere in the UI… the ui does show which hooks are deployed on each host? ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On Apr 7, 2014, at 23:04 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help. you're not supposed to need a hook under normal circumstances, when the functionality is useful enough it should be built into vdsm natively…well, that's in progress for this one for 3.4.1:) Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
That's a nice theory you've got there... :) I'd think a little script management would go a long way until you have _every_ possible use case in the system. :) As a developer I find at some point I always get talked into adding that extra bit of flexibility even though no user should ever need it. They always find something I never thought of. btw, do I put feature requests in bugzilla, or is there some other place? Thanks for all of the help. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 23:04 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help. you're not supposed to need a hook under normal circumstances, when the functionality is useful enough it should be built into vdsm natively...well, that's in progress for this one for 3.4.1:) Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On 04/08/2014 04:46 PM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: That's a nice theory you've got there... :) I'd think a little script management would go a long way until you have _every_ possible use case in the system. :) As a developer I find at some point I always get talked into adding that extra bit of flexibility even though no user should ever need it. They always find something I never thought of. we're always torn by adding such features to ovirt, or saying just use something like foreman/puppet to distribute rpms to hosts. btw, do I put feature requests in bugzilla, or is there some other place? in bugzilla. Thanks for all of the help. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 23:04 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help. you're not supposed to need a hook under normal circumstances, when the functionality is useful enough it should be built into vdsm natively...well, that's in progress for this one for 3.4.1:) Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough….:-D ….but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than that….there's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
- Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than that….there's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console
that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each host by hand? Yes On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon asegu...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com To: Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be great. It's a bit more complicated than thatthere's no XML stored in the backend. You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base for what you're trying to do... Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is every developers favorite question. one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough:-D but should be 3.4.1 Thanks, michal On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn jerem...@goodinassociates.com wrote: I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work either. thanks for any help. Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. Thanks, michal [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
