[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Introduce an option to always pxe-boot a vm.

Nicolas Ochem nicolas.ochem at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 14:40:51 UTC 2010


Previously, a pxe-booted vm would always boot to HD at next startup.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ochem <nicolas.ochem at alcatel-lucent.com>
---
 src/app/controllers/vm_controller.rb |    1 +
 src/app/models/vm.rb                 |   15 +++++++++++----
 src/app/views/vm/_form.rhtml         |    2 +-
 src/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb        |   13 +++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app/controllers/vm_controller.rb b/src/app/controllers/vm_controller.rb
index 88e13ab..8e99b67 100644
--- a/src/app/controllers/vm_controller.rb
+++ b/src/app/controllers/vm_controller.rb
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ class VmController < ApplicationController
   protected
   def _setup_provisioning_options
     @provisioning_options = [[Vm::PXE_OPTION_LABEL, Vm::PXE_OPTION_VALUE],
+                             [Vm::PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_LABEL, Vm::PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_VALUE],
                              [Vm::HD_OPTION_LABEL, Vm::HD_OPTION_VALUE]]
 
     begin
diff --git a/src/app/models/vm.rb b/src/app/models/vm.rb
index 88e0aef..885112e 100644
--- a/src/app/models/vm.rb
+++ b/src/app/models/vm.rb
@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ class Vm < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   BOOT_DEV_HD            = "hd"
   BOOT_DEV_NETWORK       = "network"
+  BOOT_DEV_NETWORK_ALWAYS= "network_always"
   BOOT_DEV_CDROM         = "cdrom"
-  BOOT_DEV_FIELDS        = [ BOOT_DEV_HD, BOOT_DEV_NETWORK, BOOT_DEV_CDROM ]
+  BOOT_DEV_FIELDS        = [ BOOT_DEV_HD, BOOT_DEV_NETWORK, BOOT_DEV_NETWORK_ALWAYS, BOOT_DEV_CDROM ]
 
   PROVISIONING_DELIMITER = ":"
   COBBLER_PREFIX         = "cobbler"
@@ -111,8 +112,10 @@ class Vm < ActiveRecord::Base
   COBBLER_PROFILE_SUFFIX = " (Cobbler Profile)"
   COBBLER_IMAGE_SUFFIX   = " (Cobbler Image)"
 
-  PXE_OPTION_LABEL       = "PXE Boot"
+  PXE_OPTION_LABEL       = "PXE Boot (once)"
   PXE_OPTION_VALUE       = "pxe"
+  PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_LABEL = "PXE Boot (always)"
+  PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_VALUE = "pxe_always"
   HD_OPTION_LABEL        = "Boot from HD"
   HD_OPTION_VALUE        = "hd"
 
@@ -264,7 +267,9 @@ class Vm < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
   def provisioning_and_boot_settings
     if provisioning == nil
-      if boot_device==BOOT_DEV_NETWORK
+      if boot_device==BOOT_DEV_NETWORK_ALWAYS
+        PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_VALUE
+      elsif boot_device==BOOT_DEV_NETWORK
         PXE_OPTION_VALUE
       elsif boot_device==BOOT_DEV_HD
         HD_OPTION_VALUE
@@ -464,7 +469,9 @@ class Vm < ActiveRecord::Base
       self.storage_volumes=@storage_volumes_pending
       @storage_volumes_pending = []
     end
-    errors.add("nics", "must specify at least one network if pxe booting off a network") unless boot_device != BOOT_DEV_NETWORK || nics.size > 0
+    #errors.add("nics", "must specify at least one network if pxe booting off a network") unless boot_device != BOOT_DEV_NETWORK || nics.size > 0
+    errors.add("nics", "must specify at least one network if pxe booting off a network") unless boot_device != BOOT_DEV_NETWORK  || boot_device != BOOT_DEV_NETWORK_ALWAYS || nics.size > 0
+
 
   end
 
diff --git a/src/app/views/vm/_form.rhtml b/src/app/views/vm/_form.rhtml
index 7a46680..1ab6dda 100644
--- a/src/app/views/vm/_form.rhtml
+++ b/src/app/views/vm/_form.rhtml
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ ${htmlList(pools, id)}
          // only set value if we have a network to set it to and we've
          // selected a provision type requiring a net
          if(nics.length > 0 &&
-           (e.target.value == "<%= Vm::PXE_OPTION_VALUE %>" ||
+           (e.target.value == "<%= Vm::PXE_OPTION_VALUE %>" ||e.target.value == "<%= Vm::PXE_ALWAYS_OPTION_VALUE %>" ||
             e.target.value.indexOf("<%= Vm::PROFILE_PREFIX %>@<%= Vm::COBBLER_PREFIX %>") == 0)){
               $('#vm_network_config_select_0').val(nics[0].network_id).trigger('change');
          }
diff --git a/src/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb b/src/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb
index 1dfd74f..6f699d2 100755
--- a/src/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb
+++ b/src/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb
@@ -415,9 +415,17 @@ class TaskOmatic
        end
        net_interfaces.push({ :mac => nic.mac, :interface => net_device, :virtio => nic.virtio })
     }
+    # network_always indicates that the boot device is "network" and will not change
+    # upon reboot.
+    if db_vm.boot_device == "network_always"
+       boot_device = "network"
+    else
+       boot_device = db_vm.boot_device
+    end
+
 
     xml = create_vm_xml(db_vm.description, db_vm.uuid, db_vm.memory_allocated,
-              db_vm.memory_used, db_vm.num_vcpus_allocated, db_vm.boot_device,
+              db_vm.memory_used, db_vm.num_vcpus_allocated, boot_device,
               db_vm.virtio, net_interfaces, storagedevs)
 
     @logger.debug("XML Domain definition: #{xml}")
@@ -443,7 +451,8 @@ class TaskOmatic
 
     # This information is not available via the libvirt interface.
     db_vm.memory_used = db_vm.memory_allocated
-    db_vm.boot_device = Vm::BOOT_DEV_HD
+    # Revert to HD booting unless we have selected to always boot from the network.
+    db_vm.boot_device = Vm::BOOT_DEV_HD unless db_vm.boot_device == Vm::BOOT_DEV_NETWORK_ALWAYS
     db_vm.host_id = db_host.id
     db_vm.save!
 
-- 
1.7.2.1




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