@Forza Doesn't the Xen API do most/all of that?

@olivierlambert said in VM level IPMI:

The right approach would be to have a provider for XO API that will provision what you need.

I believe they use terraform under the hood to provision the needed resources on AWS, Azure, VMWare, and the like. I know I could spin up the resources myself and walk through the user provisioned install, but if I use the installer provision they manage the underlying updates. They want the IPMI/BMC on the hardware to mount install media, and manage the machine.

I was guessing this was a long shot, but I at least wanted to ask. I might have to see if I can get their install to support the XO operator.

Thanks!

Is it possible to give a VM an IPMI interface? I've searched and haven't found a lot, and my guess is no/it's overly complicated. I can see that qemu has IPMI built in and it's included in the qemu-dp within the XCP-NG github, but I'm not finding any documentation with XCP-NG.

The reason I'm looking is to make setup of OKD easier. They don't have a native Xen option but do support provisioning bare metal servers with the requirement of IPMI/BMC. Thanks for your help!