On 27-Jun-2013, at 2:36 PM, Murali Reddy <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> On 27/06/13 2:46 AM, "Geoff Higginbottom"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> @Dave: you are right about advanced networks but the original question
>> was in relation to basic networking.
>> 
>> @All: I did some testing over a year ago around changing IPs for guest.
>> For a VM on and advanced network you can edit the IP directly in the
>> database but restarting the VM is not enough, you have to also restart
>> the virtual Router for that network.
>> 
>> The new 4.1 add NIC API call Dave is referring to is great and to me one
>> of the best new features of 4.1, but again it's only for advanced
>> networking so no good for the original problem.
>> 
>> The multiple IPs to a single NIC has been discussed a lot, but I believe
>> it is still in development.
> 
> Multiple Ip per nic is going in 4.2 [1]. Also in 4.2, you can reserve a
> sub-range of guest CIDR that user can control and assign to the VM's [2]
> but again this is only in advanced network.

Multiple IPs per nic is added in basic zone also. 
> 
> [1] 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Multiple+IP+address+
> per+NIC
> [2] 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/IP+Range+Reservation
> +within+a+Network
> 
> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
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>> 
>> On 26 Jun 2013, at 11:22, "Dave Dunaway"
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> @Geoff: Of course we are talking advanced networking, and having
>> consideration of what your networks are that you can use. If someone wants
>> to put a 10.x.x.x ip on a VM that is on a 192.x.x.x network, then they can
>> gladly shoot themselves in the foot. Ideally the person making such a
>> change understands the 'basic's of advanced networking in CloudPlatform.
>> Otherwise they should stick the UI.;)
>> 
>> @Jason: Look in the cloud.nics table. The nics for VMs are defined here.
>> Modify as needed. A restart of the VM to make sure it all works is highly
>> recommended.
>> 
>> In our testing environment I can move a VM from one network to another,
>> add
>> nics, change IP's etc quite easily. Some of the 4.1 API will add this
>> functionality (add nics for example to an existing VM). But there's still
>> a
>> lot of immutable things in CloudPlatform that shouldn't be, and  that
>> maybe
>> one day will be a feature. We just need to make the requests for those
>> features.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jason Pavao
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Do you by chance have a sample sql query that would perform this?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/26/2013 8:51 AM, Dave Dunaway wrote:
>> 
>> There should be a way to have the ability to reserve an IP and still have
>> DHCP assign the IP by mac reservation. There's no technical reason this
>> wouldn't work and likely a feature a lot of people would love to see. The
>> only hold back is the UI not allowing you to do so.
>> 
>> Ultimately, you can go to the DB and change the VM's IP in the nics table
>> to what you want (reboot the VM and the IP change will occur). Which is
>> not
>> the preferred way to do so, but ultimately that functionality from the UI
>> would be ideal.
>> 
>> Even going as far as intergrating IPAM functionality into the product
>> would
>> be ideal.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Geoff Higginbottom <
>> geoff.higginbottom@shapeblue.**com
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Simple answer - you can't.
>> 
>> In an advanced zone, you can specify the IP address when you create a new
>> VM using the API, however in a basic zone, because the IP will depend on
>> which POD your VM ends up in, and as a user you cannot influence this,
>> there is no way to specific the IP, even if you are a root admin.
>> 
>> The reason it still fails when you manually change the IP is that the
>> security groups feature is expecting the VM to have the IP CloudStack
>> allocated it via DHCP.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Geoff Higginbottom
>> CTO / Cloud Architect
>> 
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>> 
>> On 26 Jun 2013, at 05:02, "WXR"
>> <[email protected]<http://qq.com><http://qq.**com<http://qq.com>>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> cloudstack version: 4.1
>> network type: basic network
>> 
>> When I create a new instance,the vm will get a random IP from the DHCP
>> server on vrouter.
>> 
>> If I want to:
>> 1.allocate a specific ip to the vm.
>> 2.allocate multiple ips to the vm.
>> 3.change the vm ip from one to another.
>> 
>> How can I achieve it? I try to bind the ip to the vm nic manually but the
>> ip can not be accessed.
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