[ovirt-users] How do I activate a hot-plugged disk (in v3 Python SDK) ?

[Juan Hernández]

On 07/26/2016 08:53 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Ondra Machacek <omachace at redhat.com
> <mailto:omachace at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You actually have to run method 'activate()'[1] on VM disk.
> 
>     So it will look like this:
> 
>      api.vms.get(VM0_NAME).disks.get(DISK1_NAME).activate()
> 
>     [1]
>     https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine-sdk.git;a=blob;f=src/ovirtsdk/infrastructure/brokers.py;h=7def8a5adea3357d31827f754a1e644b70de146d;hb=sdk_3.6#l31779
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> I've ended up adding 'active=True' to the disk when adding it - and it
> seems to do the same. Is that correct?
> Y.
>  

Yes, it is correct.

Note also that in general setting a property of an object in the SDK
doesn't do anything, you need to call the "update" method:

  disk = api.vms.get(VM0_NAME).disks.get(DISK1_NAME)
  disk.set_active(true)
  disk.update()

> 
> 
> 
>     On 07/25/2016 03:13 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> 
>         After successfully attaching a disk and verifying its status is
>         in 'ok',
>         I've tried:
>         api.vms.get(VM0_NAME).disks.get(DISK1_NAME).set_active(True)
> 
>         But it doesn't really activate it. What's the correct way to
>         activate it?
>         (It works well via the UI).
> 
>         TIA,
>         Y.

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