Hello and a question about adding an extra disk for a VM in oVirt.

I'm doing an experiment in which I need to attack an extra 512MB disk for a VM. But from oVirt open virtualization manager it seems that the smallest disk can be added to VM in oVirt is 1GB? So does it exist any means to easily add an 512MB disk for an VM in oVirt?

בתאריך 3 בנוב׳ 2015 3:12 אחה״צ, "zhukaijie" <kjzhu14@is.ac.cn> כתב:
I'm doing an experiment in which I need to attack an extra 512MB disk for
a VM. But from oVirt open virtualization manager it seems that the smallest disk can be added to VM in oVirt is 1GB? So does it exist any means to easily add an 512MB disk for an VM in oVirt? It is possible via vdsm api, but it is not exposed via engine or vdsClient. Why creating 1g disk will not work? Nobody forces the guest os to use the whole disk.
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On 11/03/2015 02:07 PM, zhukaijie wrote:
I'm doing an experiment in which I need to attack an extra 512MB disk for a VM. But from oVirt open virtualization manager it seems that the smallest disk can be added to VM in oVirt is 1GB? So does it exist any means to easily add an 512MB disk for an VM in oVirt?
You may want to try the RESTAPI, for example with a simple shell script: ---8<--- #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="..." vm_id="bdbb5dcf-8a60-481d-8705-93b3dbbead55" disk_size="$((512 * 2**20))" curl \ --verbose \ --cacert /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem \ --request POST \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \ --data " <disk> <interface>virtio</interface> <format>raw</format> <provisioned_size>${disk_size}</provisioned_size> <storage_domains> <storage_domain> <name>mydata</name> </storage_domain> </storage_domains> </disk> " \ "${url}/vms/${vm_id}/disks" --->8--- Or if you prefer Python: ---8<--- #!/usr/bin/python from ovirtsdk.api import API from ovirtsdk.xml import params # Connect to the server: api = API( url="https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api", username="admin@internal", password="...", ca_file="/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem", debug=False ) # Find the VMs: vm = api.vms.get(name="myvm") # Add the disk: api.disks.add( params.Disk( interface="virtio", format="raw", provisioned_size=512 * 2**20, storage_domains=params.StorageDomains( storage_domain=[ params.StorageDomain( name="mydata" ) ] ) ) ) # Close the connection: api.disconnect() --->8--- -- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid – C.I.F. B82657941 - Red Hat S.L.
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