On 18/02/12 20:13, Nathan Stratton wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Itamar Heim wrote: > >> On 02/18/2012 12:40 AM, Nathan Stratton wrote: >>> >>> Is there anyway to set a specific UUID for a VM? >> >> no. >> may i ask why? > > Many times when we move or copy a guest we need to keep the same UUID. > As an example we have a VM that is running Centos 4 that we need > upgraded to Centos 6.2. How we have done this in the past: > > Build new VM > Install fresh Centos 6.2 > Copy over the application > Shutdown the first VM > Shutdown the 2nd VM and change UUID to match first > Fire up 2nd VM if everything works kill delete 1st VM >
How about setting the VM name instead of UUID? It won't update permissions automatically though. > We run into all sorts of other situations when we make copies as backups > and need to go to one of the backups. We never need to run a two VMs > with the same UUID, but often have a box where we need to change the > UUID to match what an old box was using. > >> <> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
