Move code for exposing VM ip to the VM itself. And display VM starting status

Fix #1621

gns3server/controller/compute.py

@@ -84,13 +84,10 @@ class Compute:
             self._id = compute_id
 
         self.protocol = protocol
+        self._console_host = console_host
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
         self._user = None
-        if console_host is None:
-            self._console_host = host
-        else:
-            self._console_host = console_host
         self._password = None
         self._connected = False
         self._closed = False  # Close mean we are destroying the compute node
@@ -217,6 +214,8 @@ class Compute:
     @host.setter
     def host(self, host):
         self._host = host
+        if self._console_host is None:
+            self._console_host = host
 
     @property
     def console_host(self):

gns3server/controller/gns3vm/__init__.py

@@ -263,15 +263,22 @@ class GNS3VM:
             engine.vmname = self._settings["vmname"]
             engine.ram = self._settings["ram"]
             engine.vpcus = self._settings["vcpus"]
+            compute = yield from self._controller.add_compute(compute_id="vm",
+                                                              name="GNS3 VM is starting ({})".format(engine.vmname),
+                                                              host=None,
+                                                              force=True)
+
+            try:
                 yield from engine.start()
-            yield from self._controller.add_compute(compute_id="vm",
-                                                    name="GNS3 VM ({})".format(engine.vmname),
+            except Exception as e:
+                yield from self._controller.delete_compute("vm")
+                raise e
+            yield from compute.update(name="GNS3 VM ({})".format(engine.vmname),
                                       protocol=self.protocol,
                                       host=self.ip_address,
                                       port=self.port,
                                       user=self.user,
-                                                    password=self.password,
-                                                    force=True)
+                                      password=self.password)
 
     @locked_coroutine
     def _suspend(self):

gns3server/run.py

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import argparse
 import shutil
 import psutil
 import asyncio
-import subprocess
 
 
 from gns3server.web.web_server import WebServer
@@ -201,29 +200,6 @@ def kill_ghosts():
             pass
 
 
-def set_vmware_gns3vm_ip():
-    """
-    For the GNS3 VM on VMware we need to get the ip of eth0.
-    vmrun getGuestIPAddress is not reliable because it's return a
-    random ip from one of the available interfaces.
-
-    We need to set a VMware variable with the value and this
-    will allow the VM host machine to retrieve it
-    """
-    vmtoolsd = shutil.which("vmtoolsd")
-    if not vmtoolsd:
-        return
-    ip = None
-    try:
-        for a in psutil.net_if_addrs()["eth0"]:
-            if ":" not in a.address:
-                ip = a.address
-    except (KeyError, IndexError):
-        return
-    if ip:
-        subprocess.call(["vmtoolsd", "--cmd", "info-set guestinfo.gns3.eth0 {}".format(ip)])
-
-
 def run():
     args = parse_arguments(sys.argv[1:])
 
@@ -247,8 +223,6 @@ def run():
     for config_file in Config.instance().get_config_files():
         user_log.info("Config file {} loaded".format(config_file))
 
-    set_vmware_gns3vm_ip()
-
     set_config(args)
     server_config = Config.instance().get_section_config("Server")