On 18/02/12 22:33, Nathan Stratton wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Livnat Peer wrote: > >> How about setting the VM name instead of UUID? It won't update >> permissions automatically though. > > Not sure I follow, VM name is good, but there are all sorts of things > that care about UUID changing.
off the top my head I can think of - permissions - events - tags - quota Permission and Quota can be handled manually the other two won't point to 'new' VM. > That is why we are looking for the > ability to set it. Today it looks like all UUIDs are random, and I > assume that a UUID needs to be unique, but how hard would it be to be > able to specify a UUID? Libvirt allows this to be done and we do it all > the time in our XML kvm files. Changing VM id does not sound like a complicated feature, when designing such a feature need to think of what are the impact on the history DB and events in the audit log (if such id was in use before). > >> <> > 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
