Re: [ovirt-users] Selecting which host to run a VM on using ovirt-shell SOLVED
Joop wrote:
Hi List,
As per the subject, I have a desire to start a lot of VMs after a
maintenance shutdown of our infrastructure and I would like to either
evenly spread the load among the hosts or to restart the VMs on the
host they were on before shutdown.
Getting the list using ovirt-shell and transforming that to a 'action
vm ABC start' is no problem but I can't find if its possible to
specify the host to run the VM on.
Is this possible using ovirt-shell and can someone point me to some
docs? (Have read (all) the rhevm docs but either overlooked or its not
there)
Answering my own question:
The help describes something about parent identifiers and references the
examples below but there is no example of how to use parent identifiers.
Extrapolating from disks belonging to a vm a reasoned that vms belong to
a host so did 'list hosts' and copied the id. It says 'An object
identifier is an option of the form '--<type>id <id>' but it looks
this
is confusing, atleast to me.
This is what worked:
action vm VM_NAME start --type ID_OF_HOST
The help has 2x id which confuses me.
Joop