On 10-11-14 08:37, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In case of VMWare, when we register a new template we can pass in nic type 
> and disk controller but there is no API (or parameter passable to current 
> APIs) to change nic type and disk controller for both VM and template.
> 
> I’m planning to add a details map (following the registerTemplate API) to 
> updateTemplate and updateVirtualMachine APIs which would takes in the nictype 
> and disk controller parameters. Please share if this would cause any issue 
> for you or if there is was a good reason to not allow it before? Right now to 
> do something like that would require database hacking. Thanks.
> 

I don't see any problems. For some longer running VMs it might be useful
at some point that you can switch from e1000 to VirtIO NICs for example.

Wido

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