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Right - It doesn't work with libvirt now. A guest agent would be required
to make that work.

It seems QEMU/KVM do have some initial support for guest agents[1][2] that
could be used, but this has not been implemented in nova, and I'm not sure
how stable or complete their support is.

[1]: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent
[2]: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VMchannel_Requirements

Thanks,
Kiall


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Jānis Ģeņģeris <janis.gengeris at gmail.com>wrote:

> But afaik `nova root-password` is not working with KVM driver.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie>wrote:
>
>> Cloud-Init isn't quite the same thing..
>>
>> ie - cloud-init does not work with the `nova root-password` command..
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kiall
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Vachon <vachon at sessionm.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Jānis Ģeņģeris
>>> <janis.gengeris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Is there any publicly available guest agents that can be used for KVM
>>> based VMs?
>>> >
>>> > One of the features that would be really usable is ability to change
>>> the root password.
>>> >
>>> > I have found this
>>> https://github.com/rackspace/openstack-guest-agents-unix , I bet it's
>>> the same thing running inside of Rackspace vms as nova-agent. But as I
>>> understand it's for Xen only.
>>> >
>>> > What are you using in your setups to address this problem?
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Janis
>>> >
>>>
>>> We use Ubuntu's cloud-init package
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --janis
>
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