On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:02:22AM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:55:59PM +0200, Michal Fojtik wrote: > > > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Hugh Brock wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:50:54PM +0200, Michal Fojtik wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> to avoid many future questions how does this work I decide to write a > > >> simple howto: > > >>
[snip] > > > running in order for this to work? > > > > Negative, VMWare tools are just needed to get IP address out of instance. > > > > -- Michal > > Oh, that's really cool. How does the instance know to mount it? > Trough soap interface we tell to vmware what he had to mount, what kind of support (Floppy, ISO, USB) > So that says to me that you could use this mechanism to do all manner > of data and config injection without requiring a config server at > all. For example, if your guest was configured to look in a particular > spot in the user data for a script, and that script installed VMWare > tools, you wouldn't have to pre-install them in the image. > Exactly, you've just to add everything you need on the iso image and have a script to do the dirty job. Cheers, Francesco > --Hugh > > -- > == Hugh Brock, [email protected] == > == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == > == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == > == http://aeolusproject.org == > > "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m > not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." > --Robert McCloskey
