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If your users have access  only to dashboard ( Horizon Folsom), they
can use "Customization Script" field  ( "Post-Creation" tab , "Launch
instance" link) .

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Salman Toor <salman.toor at it.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this inform! I will look into InitCloud, but with this "nova boot
> ... " command how do I will allow my users to start VMs from the dashboard
> that run those scripts?
>
> Regards..
> Salman.
>
> Salman Toor,
> salman.toor at it.uu.se
>
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Anton Haldin wrote:
>
> If you have some agent installed in your image you can  execute script at
> the boot time .
> CloudInit is good example. And it will execute user-data script ( you can
> define this script in "nova boot  .....  --user-data <user-data>"
> As agent installed in image  you can also use something simple like this
> script
> http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-aws/source/browse/trunk/packages/gentoo-ec2/bin/ec2-get-metadata.sh?spec=svn2&r=2
>
> Another way is to use file injection "nova boot ...... --file
> <dst-path=src-path> " you can inject it somewhere , for example in
> /etc/init.d/
>
>
> Anton
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:11 PM, James R Penick <penick at yahoo-inc.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Salman,
>>  Check out the cloud-init stuff here:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit that'll allow you to run
>> arbitrary commands during boot time. Though it's not what you're looking
>> for, it's probably exactly what you need. :)
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> From: Salman Toor <salman.toor at it.uu.se>
>> Date: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:47 PM
>> To: Anton Haldin <ahaldin at griddynamics.com>
>> Cc: "openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org"
>> <OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] ISO containing the user data. How to
>> attach it at boot time?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your answer Anton.
>>
>> Actually the images we have required to  fetch/enable some components
>> while booting the instance. In order to do that, we are using some scripts.
>> ISO contains those scripts. We have mount the iso to the image at boot time
>> by defining it into the image config file.
>>
>> The bottom line is that we need to run some scripts. Can you please give
>> me an example how do I run the scripts at the boot time in Openstack?  And
>> also where should I place those scripts?
>>
>> Regards..
>> Salman.
>>
>> Salman Toor
>> salman.toor at it.uu.se
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Anton Haldin wrote:
>>
>> Hi Salman
>>
>> I'm not sure if I understand your question.
>> If you want to launch instances by using your image , you need to load it
>> in glance (storage service for images)
>>
>> If you want to push some data to the new instance ,  you can use "user
>> data" parameter with "nova boot" command .Value of this parameter would be
>> pushed into instance by file injection.  You can also use meta data with
>> "nova boot" command. Values of meta data ( tags) would be available in
>> instance through metadata service.
>>
>>
>> Anton.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Salman Toor <salman.toor at it.uu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have created a user-data.iso (only contains startup script) and I am
>>> using KVM in my setup. Right now I have tested my user-data.iso with virsh
>>> tool and now I want to use that iso file everytime I boot my instance in
>>> openstack. I read that there is a service call metadata service. Can
>>> somebody guide me how do I upload/use my iso file at boot time with the
>>> instances in openstack?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Salman.
>>>
>>>
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