Re: [Engine-devel] 'Import VM/Template More Than Once' feature
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:03:46 PM
On 02/21/2012 05:27 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> 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
This reminds me that I was in a dilemma of suffix/prefix issue
myself,
in Clone VM from snapshot feature.
I think this issue may be problematic , and for simplicity we should
simply provide a new name.
* just to clarify: the suffix feature is a pure GUI feature, and it shouldn't involve
the backend/api; the api should require a new name for every imported VM; the suffix
text-box is just to allow the user to provide a new name for several imported VMs at
once.
* in case of "clone VM from snapshot", I think that providing a new name is
enough (maybe provide a default name in the new name text-box, but again - it is GUI
only), mainly because I don't think that we will allow cloning from several
VMs/snapshots at once.
[we might want to clone several VMs from the same snapshot, not sure how we will provide
multiple names in such case]
> 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.
>
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