[ovirt-users] Re: Virtual Machine Pools

[Christopher Law]

Thanks for this.

In our environment the engine (physical host) is on an isolated network so 
“normal” users wouldn’t have access to this, but perhaps I can find a way to 
expose it or use the APIs you mention.

Cheers,

Chris.

From: Arik Hadas 
Sent: 06 November 2022 15:10
To: Christopher Law 
Cc: users@ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual Machine Pools



On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:19 PM Christopher Law 
mailto:ch...@chrislaw.me>> wrote:
Hopefully, someone can clarify this a bit for me…

From the redhat instructions…

“In principle, virtual machines in a pool are started when taken by a user, and 
shut down when the user is finished. However, virtual machine pools can also 
contain pre-started virtual machines. Pre-started virtual machines are kept in 
an up state, and remain idle until they are taken by a user. This allows users 
to start using such virtual machines immediately, but these virtual machines 
will consume system resources even while not in use due to being idle.”

How do users request “take” virtual machines from the pool? For example with a 
windows machine where we want them to remote desktop into it using RDP? Or does 
this have to happen through some other portal? Do we have to give users access 
to the VM Portal?

It generally refers to the VM portal - users should be able to access it and 
take virtual machines there and then, when their VM is allocated and started, 
they can connect to it using RDP. But it can alternatively be done using 
scripts/tools that do this via the API:
https://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.5/#services/vm_pool/methods/allocate_vm


Cheers,

Chris.
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[ovirt-users] Re: Virtual Machine Pools

[Arik Hadas]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:19 PM Christopher Law  wrote:

> Hopefully, someone can clarify this a bit for me…
>
>
>
> From the redhat instructions…
>
>
>
> “In principle, virtual machines in a pool are started when taken by a
> user, and shut down when the user is finished. However, virtual machine
> pools can also contain pre-started virtual machines. Pre-started virtual
> machines are kept in an up state, and remain idle until they are taken by a
> user. This allows users to start using such virtual machines immediately,
> but these virtual machines will consume system resources even while not in
> use due to being idle.”
>
>
>
> How do users request “take” virtual machines from the pool? For example
> with a windows machine where we want them to remote desktop into it using
> RDP? Or does this have to happen through some other portal? Do we have to
> give users access to the VM Portal?
>

It generally refers to the VM portal - users should be able to access it
and take virtual machines there and then, when their VM is allocated and
started, they can connect to it using RDP. But it can alternatively be done
using scripts/tools that do this via the API:
https://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.5/#services/vm_pool/methods/allocate_vm


>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Chris.
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