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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables"
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables" |
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Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:29:39 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:09:22PM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in adding a way for a host to pass environment variables
> into a qemu guest VM -- analogous to setting environment variables for
> a process to access via getenv() and friends.
>
> The QEMU Guest Agent (QGA) does not appear to quite fit the bill, at
> least not in its current form: The agent must have been successfully
> started on the guest before the host would have to connect to it (in
> a separate act from just starting the guest in the first place), and
> get it to execute any hypothetical commands to configure or otherwise
> influence the guest.
> So, my question for the QEMU dev team:
>
> 1. Would you consider this feature a useful addition to QEMU ?
> I.e., would this be acceptable (of interest) to the upstream project?
>
> 2. Is anything similar already being worked on (so I could either join
> that effort, or back off, as the case may be) ? :)
IMHO this is already a solved problem via the cloud-init project which
is the widely used standard for injecting information into guest OS
at boot time. Any OS distro shipping cloud images is already going to
have cloud-init provided.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Michael Roth, 2015/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Gabriel L. Somlo, 2015/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Michael Roth, 2015/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Gabriel L. Somlo, 2015/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Gabriel L. Somlo, 2015/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables",
Daniel P. Berrange <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Christopher Covington, 2015/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables", Richard W.M. Jones, 2015/02/04