VMware: support injecting ssh key
The current VMware driver does not support injecting the SSH public key into the guest OS. This blueprint is to address that lack of support. It would also improve VMware minesweepers execution of the tempest test. Tempest has a test to boot from a volume, but Minesweeper doesn't run it because ssh key injection is not supported by the vmware driver.
The keys in question are SSH keys that are injected into the guest file system. Because the libvirt/xen drivers can make assumptions about the guest OS being linux they can frequently perform file system operations without having to switch behaviors for different guest operating systems.
see: keypair-add
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Based on this we would have to lean on the VMware Guest Tools and AFAIK there's nothing in this incarnation of the driver to support working with keys in guests. We would have to inject the SSH key from our driver.
This would be a good feature add for Juno. I think this would be best done in the following pieces:
1. detect guest tools (to see if you can do guest operations)
2. guest OS tools object
3. ssh key injection tool
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Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Eric Brown
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Eric Brown
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Eric Brown
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If we use the FileManager API, how do we get credentials for the guest OS? --rgerganov (25th April 2014)
If you are still working on this, please re-submit via nova-specs. If not, please mark as obsolete, and add a quick comment to describe why. --johnthetubaguy (20th April 2014)
SSH key injection via config drive is already supported by the VMware driver today. No additional work should be necessary. --ericwb (18th April 2014)
