Re: [ovirt-users] Get UU
On 12/31/2017 1:23 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Michal Skrivanek mailto:michal.skriva...@redhat.com>> wrote: On 30 Dec 2017, at 06:54, Blaster mailto:blas...@556nato.com>> wrote: I need to create an old oVirt Windows VM. The VM has an old licensed product that we can no longer get a licensed reissued for. It looks like I need to feed back the original qemu UUID that was used when the VM was created. I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage domain. I viewed the engine backup, but the format as-is doesn't give any obvious configuration details of the VMs at the time of the backup. Is the UUID as obvious as the file name of the VM's boot volume UUID name? I think it's the field 'vm_guid' in the table 'vm_static'. You can restore the backup on a temp vm somewhere - make sure it has no access to your hosts so that the engine will not start to manage them - or just look at the db dump. The backup is a tar file, and you can look at db dumps inside it using 'pg_restore filename | less'. The guest UUID is configurable per VM in Edit dialog, you can use a custom value Thank you, I was able to get the UUID back! ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [ovirt-users] Get UU
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Michal Skrivanek < michal.skriva...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 30 Dec 2017, at 06:54, Blaster wrote: > > I need to create an old oVirt Windows VM. The VM has an old licensed > product that we can no longer get a licensed reissued for. It looks like I > need to feed back the original qemu UUID that was used when the VM was > created. > > I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage domain. > > I viewed the engine backup, but the format as-is doesn't give any obvious > configuration details of the VMs at the time of the backup. Is the UUID as > obvious as the file name of the VM's boot volume UUID name? > > I think it's the field 'vm_guid' in the table 'vm_static'. You can restore the backup on a temp vm somewhere - make sure it has no access to your hosts so that the engine will not start to manage them - or just look at the db dump. The backup is a tar file, and you can look at db dumps inside it using 'pg_restore filename | less'. > > The guest UUID is configurable per VM in Edit dialog, you can use a custom > value > > > ___ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ___ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- Didi ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [ovirt-users] Get UU
On 30 Dec 2017, at 06:54, Blaster wrote: I need to create an old oVirt Windows VM. The VM has an old licensed product that we can no longer get a licensed reissued for. It looks like I need to feed back the original qemu UUID that was used when the VM was created. I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage domain. I viewed the engine backup, but the format as-is doesn't give any obvious configuration details of the VMs at the time of the backup. Is the UUID as obvious as the file name of the VM's boot volume UUID name? The guest UUID is configurable per VM in Edit dialog, you can use a custom value ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[ovirt-users] Get UU
I need to create an old oVirt Windows VM. The VM has an old licensed product that we can no longer get a licensed reissued for. It looks like I need to feed back the original qemu UUID that was used when the VM was created. I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage domain. I viewed the engine backup, but the format as-is doesn't give any obvious configuration details of the VMs at the time of the backup. Is the UUID as obvious as the file name of the VM's boot volume UUID name? ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users