This Ruby example starts a virtual machine using the Cloud-Init tool to set the root
password and network configuration.
# Find the virtual machine:
vms_service = connection.system_service.vms_service
vm = vms_service.list(search: 'name=myvm')[0]
# Find the service that manages the virtual machine:
vm_service = vms_service.vm_service(vm.id)
# Create a cloud-init script to execute in the
# deployed virtual machine. The script must be correctly
# formatted and indented because it uses YAML.
my_script = "
write_files:
- content: |
Hello, world!
path: /tmp/greeting.txt
permissions: '0644'
"
# Start the virtual machine, enabling cloud-init and providing the
# password for the `root` user and the network configuration:
vm_service.start(
use_cloud_init: true,
vm: {
initialization: {
user_name: 'root',
root_password: 'redhat123',
host_name: 'myvm.example.com',
nic_configurations: [
{
name: 'eth0',
on_boot: true,
boot_protocol: OvirtSDK4::BootProtocol::STATIC,
ip: {
version: OvirtSDK4::IpVersion::V4,
address: '192.168.0.100',
netmask: '255.255.255.0',
gateway: '192.168.0.1'
}
}
],
dns_servers: '192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3',
dns_search: 'example.com',
custom_script: my_script
}
}
)
For more information, see VmService:start.