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If data that are you planning to pass to the VM is considerably large
Metadata mechanism may be used for passing at least a link to the source of
data and simple shell script that will executed on VM with CloudInit right
after the boot to obtain data via simple cURL.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Denis Makogon <dmakogon at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Agreed with Max.
> With nova you can use file injection mechanism. You just need to build a
> dictionary of file paths and file content. But I do agree that it's not the
> same as you want. But it's more than
> valid way to inject files.
>
> Best regards,
> Denis Makogon
>
> понедельник, 15 сентября 2014 г. пользователь Maksym Lobur написал:
>
> Try to use Nova Metadata Serivce [1] or Nova Config Drive [2]. There are
>> options to pass Key-Value data as well as whole files during VM boot.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/metadata-service.html
>> [2]
>> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/config-drive.html
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Max Lobur,
>> OpenStack Developer, Mirantis, Inc.
>>
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>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:21 PM, pratik maru <fipuzzles at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Xian,
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying.
>>>
>>> I have some data which i wants to be passed to VM. To pass this data,  I
>>> have planned this to attach as an usb disk and this disk will be used
>>> inside the vm to read the data.
>>>
>>> What I am looking is for the functionality similar to "-usb" option with
>>> qemu.kvm command.
>>>
>>> Please let me know, how it can be achieved in openstack environment.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> fipuzzles
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Xiandong Meng <mengxiandong at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is your concrete user scenario for this request?
>>>> Where do you expect to plugin the USB disk? On the compute node that
>>>> hosts the VM or from somewhere else?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:01 AM, pratik maru <fipuzzles at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to attach an USB disk as an external disk to VM while
>>>>> booting up the VM ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help in this respect will be really helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> fipuzzles
>>>>>
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