It is the same script, I just renamed it. Now what I did works but it isn't
the proper way to do it. I want to improve it before contributing it as I
write the ovf data back out to a file and use pythons sed like
functionality to modify the file and then read in the updated one to give
to the engine. I just wanted to get something to work to get my project
done.

Don

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:35 AM Arik Hadas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:24 PM Don Dupuis <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 6:49 PM Don Dupuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nudging to see if anyone has experience with this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Don
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:18 PM Don Dupuis <[email protected]>
>>>>> 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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