On 18/02/12 22:33, Nathan Stratton wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Livnat Peer wrote:
How about setting the VM name instead of UUID? It won't update permissions automatically though.
Not sure I follow, VM name is good, but there are all sorts of things that care about UUID changing.
off the top my head I can think of - permissions - events - tags - quota Permission and Quota can be handled manually the other two won't point to 'new' VM.
That is why we are looking for the ability to set it. Today it looks like all UUIDs are random, and I assume that a UUID needs to be unique, but how hard would it be to be able to specify a UUID? Libvirt allows this to be done and we do it all the time in our XML kvm files.
Changing VM id does not sound like a complicated feature, when designing such a feature need to think of what are the impact on the history DB and events in the audit log (if such id was in use before).
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