On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:24 PM Don Dupuis <donds...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Arik
> Just to say thank you again for the pointers on what was needed to be
> done. I was able to modify that script to do what was needed and now it
> works like a champ.
>

Awesome, glad to hear that.
Looking again at what you wrote below, you've mentioned the script is named
upload_ova_as_template.py. We've made some changes to that script and
renamed it to upload_ova_as_vm_or_template.py [1]. It would be great if you
could contribute your changes to it

[1]
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine-sdk.git;a=blob;f=sdk/examples/upload_ova_as_vm_or_template.py;h=d6f40548b912577dc18a24d564f37d117a084d28;hb=HEAD


>
> Thanks
> Don
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 3:56 PM Don Dupuis <donds...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Arik
>> Thanks for the info. My simple setup is just a base for bigger clusters
>> that I have to do and there will be multiple templates that I need to
>> install. I have python programming skills but just needed some simple
>> pointing in the right direction on where to make the addition changes to
>> the code. It takes a little bit of time to get the services and types
>> correct for what you want to accomplish and how it is implemented.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:51 PM Arik Hadas <aha...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 6:49 PM Don Dupuis <donds...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nudging to see if anyone has experience with this?
>>>>
>>>> Don
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:18 PM Don Dupuis <donds...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a single ovirt manager and 2 ovirt hosts, each has a local
>>>>> storage domain. I am using the upload_ova_as_template.py and my template
>>>>> upload works on a single host but not both. If I use the gui method, there
>>>>> is the option of "clone" and putting in a new name for the template. This
>>>>> seems to work most of the time, but it has failed a couple of times also. 
>>>>> I
>>>>> would like to add the same "clone" and "name" option to the
>>>>> upload_ova_as_temple.py. What is the best way to do this since I need to
>>>>> have unique UUIDs for the template disks? This is a unique setup in the
>>>>> fact that I can't use shared storage and this should be doable as I was
>>>>> able to do it in the ovirt gui.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> If it's just a one-time operation, I'd rather try to create a VM out of
>>> the template that was imported successfully (with disk-provisioning =
>>> clone), create a second template out of it, remove the original template
>>> and then upload the template from the OVA to the other storage domain.
>>>
>>> Changing the script to obtain import as clone is also possible but it
>>> requires some programming skills - you'd need to either generate or provide
>>> the script with different name for the template and UUIDs for the disks and
>>> then (1) use the new UUIDs when uploading the disks and (2) change the OVF
>>> that is loaded from the OVA to have the new name and UUIDs before providing
>>> the OVF to the engine.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Don
>>>>>
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