A virtual BMC for controlling virtual machines using IPMI commands.
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VirtualBMC

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Overview

A virtual BMC for controlling virtual machines using IPMI commands.

Installation

pip install virtualbmc

Supported IPMI commands

# Power the virtual machine on, off, graceful off, NMI and reset
ipmitool -I lanplus -U admin -P password -H 127.0.0.1 power on|off|soft|diag|reset

# Check the power status
ipmitool -I lanplus -U admin -P password -H 127.0.0.1 power status

# Set the boot device to network, hd or cdrom
ipmitool -I lanplus -U admin -P password -H 127.0.0.1 chassis bootdev pxe|disk|cdrom

# Get the current boot device
ipmitool -I lanplus -U admin -P password -H 127.0.0.1 chassis bootparam get 5

Project resources

Project status, bugs, and requests for feature enhancements (RFEs) are tracked in StoryBoard: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack/virtualbmc

For information on how to contribute to VirtualBMC, see https://docs.openstack.org/virtualbmc/latest/contributor