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Other approach to the way I have described in the mail above is to use
openstack/os-collect-config
<https://github.com/openstack/os-collect-config> project
to handle downloading and running shell script.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Serg Melikyan <smelikyan at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>>>>
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