Hi
Thanks for the help. If I got your answer clear than there is no possibility to convey any
information from the guest VM to VMware, where this information is available through
the vCenter API (with the exception of the small png of the screen).
Use case 1
I am provisioning VMs to external services using the vCloud API (I have no knowledge of
the VM with exception that VMware tools is installed). The IP is allocated to the VM in a
static way. I would like to notify the external service that the VM is running and is ready
for use. To this I would like to outwait the power cycle of the VM (guest customization of
networking).
Use case 2
After the VM starts up (linux) it generates a new RSA key of for the SSH service. I would like
to retrieve the fingerprint of the key on a secured channel. So when the external service first
connects to the VM is able to verify it's identity. 2 ideas to this
- use guest customization script to set the fingerprint to the VMX (or some other property) and
retrieve it from vCloud
- print the fingerprint to the console output and retrieve the console output
(these two are not possible in vCloud)
In either of the use cases I do not want to deploy a "service" in the cloud to provide a "callback"
like functionality.
If you have any ideas how to solve this that would be very helpful. I would really want to
avoid using vCenter (defeats the purpose of vCloud).
Thanks
D.