Hi Kelcey / Trevor - I think you got confused between 2 apis we have in Cloudstack - restoreVirtualMachine and recoverVirtualMachine. restore vm api restores a new volume for the vm keeping the IP address and other attributes intact. This action is available only when the vm is stopped or running state. Whereas recover vm is for recovering the vm and just changes the state of the vm (from destroyed to stopped) and is available when the vm is in destroyed state.
But we show actions for only one of them in the UI actions. We should have one for restoreVirtualMachine api as well. Thanks, -Nitin On 05-Jan-2013, at 10:35 AM, Kelceydamage@bbits wrote: We discussed this, but RestoreVM is for resurrecting a VM in status 'Destroyed' before its expunged. Trevor wants to re-image an existing VM. You could also look it at snapshot rollback. Being able to restore a VM to a previous state. Most importantly Trevor needs a solution that does not change or re-assign the VMs IP due to corporate application restrictions. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 4, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Koushik Das <koushik....@citrix.com<mailto:koushik....@citrix.com>> wrote: Take a look at restoreVirtualMachine API (com.cloud.api.commands.RestoreVMCmd) -Koushik From: Trevor Francis [mailto:trevor.fran...@tgrahamcapital.com] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 2:08 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Restore a VM from template Is there a way to restore a VM from a template that was created from the API? Trevor Francis Partner 46 Labs | PeerEdge Cloud Switch (PeCS) http://www.46labs.com | http://www.peeredge.net 720-214-3643- Voice tre...@46labs.com<mailto:tre...@46labs.com> Solutions Provider for the Telecom Industry
