Feature #10984
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Make console available for VM discovered hosts
Description
Although it is possible to attach existing VM to CR, it would be nice to have hosts attached if we are able to identify them from the facts uploaded. This is relevant to either discovered hosts or hosts craeted via facts.
Implementation can be challenging as we need to know VM (UU)ID from within the VM and this needs to be fact uploaded. Nice feature, but not improtant imho.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Need more information
Why don't you associate the host to the VM?
Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from Need more information to New
He is aware. The purpose of this RFE is to do this automatically. This was discussed in BZ. Low priority.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
Bryan Kearney wrote:
Although it is possible to attach existing VM to CR, it would be nice to have hosts attached if we are able to identify them from the facts uploaded. This is relevant to either discovered hosts or hosts craeted via facts.
Implementation can be challenging as we need to know VM (UU)ID from within the VM and this needs to be fact uploaded. Nice feature, but not improtant imho.
The existing association feature works by other identifying attributes, such as MAC or IP, rather than having the VM self-report.
This method's easy to call today, but the difficulty with it is that you don't know which CR to attempt association against. (All could be expensive.)
It would also have to be optional, as there are side-effects such as deletion when you have an association present.