Re: [Engine-devel] restapi: New params for import VM/Template

On 05/16/2012 05:08 PM, Michael Pasternak wrote: > On 05/16/2012 04:38 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: >>>> >>>> please note "vm exists" is based on vm uuid, not on vm name >>> >>> i think it based on name, Omer? >> >> two different things: >> 1. vm name is unique. >> 2. import vm cannot import an existing vm based on it's uuid (which is what this feature is about). >> >> i.e., if i create a vm X, export it, rename X to Y, i will still fail importing X without 'cloning' it (the cloning process is about changing uuid's of vm, disks, nics) > > why import not changing ids by definition? this way only collision that might happen > is a vm.name ..., i.e 'cannot import vm.x cause vm with same name already exist' ... > 1. because we didn't have this behavior till now. 2. because for templates you may want to preserve the uuid to move over VMs/chains using it. 3. because import keeping uuid's allows to handle snapshot chains and re-use of template which does not require changing the actual images, still pointing to the low level actual file/chains (can also be fixed by separating internal uuid's and disks/snapshots uuids, but much more work)