[Engine-devel] 'Import VM/Template More Than Once' feature

[Yaniv Kaul]

On 02/21/2012 05:11 PM, Gilad Chaplik wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The 'Import VM/Template More Than Once' feature description can be found under the following link:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/ImportMoreThanOnce
>
> Please review, and feel free to share your comments and thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
> Gilad.
>
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1. Missing high level (user level) summary. For example, what does it 
mean that a VM already exist in the setup? If I had a VM with 10GB disk, 
without an OS installed, then exported it, then installed an OS into it 
(so now the disk is a bit full, as opposed to the emptied exported one). 
Does it means that an identical entity already exist in the setup or 
not? (think of overwriting files).
The design should (ALWAYS?) start with the user flow.
2. 'clone' doesn't strike me as a great parameter name in the API. Not 
in the UI either (but I don't have a better suggestion - yet).
3. What is the equivalent to 'suffix' in the API? Or do we expect to 
provide a name when we import? I'm not sure how the API works in the 
case of an existing VM, really. Only after we fetch via the API the fact 
it has an existing VM, we give it a new suffix?
4. Small typos (I'll fix them later directly in the wiki, except for the 
mockups, which I can't fix).
Y.