This is an Opscode Knife plugin to interact with Oracle’s OracleVM.

gem install knife-oraclevm

This plugin only communicates with the OracleVM Manager via the documented CLI. Only named user authentication via SSH keys is supported. You can add the credentials to your knife.rb file:

knife[:ovmmgr_host] = "oraclevmmgr-hostname"
knife[:ovmmgr_user] = "privileged username"        # defaults to admin
knife[:ovmmgr_pass] = "your password"

Credentials can also be specified on the command line for multiple oraclevm manager servers

This plugin provides the following Knife subcommands. Specific command options can be found by invoking the subcommand with a --help flag

Change the operational state of a VM
<vmname> is the name of the virtual machine you wish to display or alter the power state on.
-s,  --state <on|off|suspend|resume|reset>   Alter the power state of the virtual machine to the state specified    
If -s,  --state is not specified the current power state is displayed

List VM's or if <vmname> specified list the details of that specific vm

Delete the specified VM
<vmname> is the name of the virtual machine you wish to delete

List Serverpool's or if <poolname> specified list the details of that specific serverpool

Clone a VM or a template

-n, --destname VALUE    The name of the cloned virtual machine or template.
-t, --desttype VALUE    The object to create from the virtual machine can be a virtual machine or a template.
-p, --serverpool VALUE  The server pool on which to deploy the cloned virtual machine or template.

Edit cpu and memory of a VM

-c, --cpucount VALUE       The number of processors the virtual machine is allocated.
-x, --cpucountlimit VALUE  The maximum number of processors the virtual machine can be allocated.
-m, --memory VALUE         The memory size the virtual machine is allocated in MB.
-l, --memoryLimit VALUE    The maximum memory size the virtual machine can be allocated in MB.

Note: Vm must be in the stopped state

Add a network to a VM

-n, --network VALUE       The name of the network.
-s, --vnicname VALUE      The name of the vnic.

Send VM messages to a VM

-k, --key VALUE          The name of the key.
-m, --message VALUE      The value of the message.

List the details of a tag

When non tag name is given, a list of availble tag is displayed.

Authors

Geoff O’Callaghan <geoffocallaghan@gmail.com>

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 Geoff O’Callaghan

Oracle is a trademarks of Oracle, Inc.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.