[libvirt-users] How to pass info to a guest?

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Thu Sep 20 15:27:00 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Blake" <eblake at redhat.com>
> To: "Renich Bon Ciric" <renich at woralelandia.com>
> Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] How to pass info to a guest?
> 
> On 09/20/2012 08:47 AM, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would love to be able to pass information to a Guest. For
> > example:
> > 
> > - I'd love to sync the root password with the VNC/Spice one
> > - I'd like to be able to inject stuff to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 

Have a look at the cloud-init package as well - which is designed for this use case.


> This is doable while the guest is offline, if you use libguestfs.  It
> is
> also possible to set up a shared filesystem (where both host and
> guest
> see the same host files), if your guest is new enough to use plan9fs
> file systems.
> 
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> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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