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VM resource management #202

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added vm options as env var
Jan 27, 2014
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added VM params section to README.md
Jan 27, 2014
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cosmetic fix, whitespaces
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typo in loop...
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ environment variable. For example, you can set a download speed limit:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | env CURL_OPTS="--limit-rate 50k" bash

Passing additional VM parameters
--------------------------------

Additional VM parameters can be passed using the `VM_OPTS` variable:

curl -s .../ievms.sh | env VM_OPTS="[--vram]=64 [--cpus]=2 [--memory]=1024" bash


Disk requirements
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions ievms.sh
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Expand Up @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ guest_user="IEUser"
# The VM user password to use for guest control.
guest_pass="Passw0rd!"

# Specify addititional vm opts: VM_OPTS="[--vram]=64 [--cpus]=2"
declare -A vm_opts
eval "vm_opts=(${VM_OPTS:-""})"

# ## Utilities

# Print a message to the console.
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local disk_path="${ievms_home}/${vm}-disk1.vmdk"
log "Creating ${vm} VM (disk: ${disk_path})"
VBoxManage import "${ova}" --vsys 0 --vmname "${vm}" --unit "${unit}" --disk "${disk_path}"

for opt in "${!vm_opts[@]}"
do
log "Modifying ${vm} with: ${opt} ${vm_opts[$opt]}"
VBoxManage modifyvm "${vm}" "${opt}" "${vm_opts[$opt]}"
done

log "Building ${vm} VM"
declare -F "build_ievm_ie${1}" && "build_ievm_ie${1}"
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