[nova] hw_qemu_guest_agent image metadata property

Laurent Dumont laurentfdumont at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 22:07:01 UTC 2022


I don't think this is possible. It might be possible to add it to the image
and then do a rebuild? But that's pretty close to recreating your instances.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM John Ratliff <jdratlif at globalnoc.iu.edu>
wrote:

> We forgot to set this property on our image before creating several
> servers in our openstack cluster. I tried adding this property to the
> volume of one of the hosts and shutting it down / turning it back on, but
> it didn’t help.
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> I found this blog post showing one way that worked, but it requires manual
> database editing. I was hoping for something a bit less typo-prone, like
> something in the openstack cli.
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> https://www.thenoccave.com/2021/07/openstack-qemu-guest-tools-after-creation/
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> I can automate the above with ansible if that’s the only way, but if
> someone has a better suggestion that doesn’t involve recreating our
> instances, I would appreciate it.
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> Thanks.
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> --John Ratliff
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