Internal Ids are visible only to the admin. Other users only see UUID, instance_name is not visible.
Admin: <listvirtualmachinesresponse cloudstack-version="4.1.0-SNAPSHOT"> <count>1</count> <virtualmachine> <id>dfbcada9-9c03-484a-8c3f-c102475cc724</id> <name>dfbcada9-9c03-484a-8c3f-c102475cc724</name> ...... ...... <hypervisor>XenServer</hypervisor> <instancename>i-3-12-VM</instancename> <jobstatus>0</jobstatus></virtualmachine></listvirtualmachinesresponse> Regular user: <listvirtualmachinesresponse cloudstack-version="4.1.0-SNAPSHOT"> <count>1</count> <virtualmachine> <id>dfbcada9-9c03-484a-8c3f-c102475cc724</id> <name>dfbcada9-9c03-484a-8c3f-c102475cc724</name> ......... .......... <hypervisor>XenServer</hypervisor> <jobstatus>0</jobstatus></virtualmachine> </listvirtualmachinesresponse> ~kishan > -----Original Message----- > From: prasanna [mailto:srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Prasanna Santhanam > Sent: Friday, 25 January 2013 11:41 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Internal db. id in VM instance/disk names > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17:10AM +0530, Koushik Das wrote: > > Recently there were changes made in CS to replace internal ids with > > uuid. The reason was to obfuscate the increasing id sequences with > > something random. But if you look at the vm instance name format > > i-<account_id>-<vm_instance_id>-VM, it still has the internal ids in > > them. Should there be changes in the VM names as well to use uuids? > > > > Do you mean the hostname within the VM? I'm pretty sure we assign uuid to > the hostnames for XenServer and KVM. Not sure about VmWare. Only > administrators can see the internal name and there is no trace of it within > user vms. > > -- > Prasanna.,
