Thanks a lot Itamar.
Everything became clear.
Unfortunately, We are still using ovirt 3.0, for which I think ovirt-shell
is not available.
So, I will make a small java program.
Best RGDS
2013/1/5 Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com>
On 01/04/2013 07:04 PM, Hideo Goto wrote:
> Thaks a lot for your suggestion.
>
> in fact I found the <type>parameter which specifies server/desktop,
> checking the output of VMs' parameters by REST (/api/vms).
> Is it this very "type" paramter to change?
>
yes.
> Best RGDS
> Hideo GOTO
>
> P.S.
> I would be happy if you could recomend me any tool, if existing,
> which might make it easy to update parameters by REST.
>
ovirt-shell is a cli tool which should let you update such a parameter
with a one liner command.
you can also use the python or java sdk's for any heavier scripting.
> 2013/1/4 Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com>:
>
>> On 01/03/2013 05:32 PM, Hideo Goto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> First of all, a Happy new year to every subscriber of the list.
>>>
>>> My first concern of the year about ovirt:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to change the type of an existing VM from desktop to
>>> server by any possible means?
>>> In my case, the VM was imported from KVM to Ovirt 3.0 environment
>>> using virt-v2v. I have just found out that the VM was recognized as
>>> desktop while expected as server .
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any advise.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the REST API/SDK/CLI would allow this as updating this
>> field
>> of the VM.
>> michael?
>>
>