[Engine-devel] 'Import VM/Template More Than Once' feature

[Yair Zaslavsky]

On 02/21/2012 05:27 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On 02/21/2012 05:11 PM, Gilad Chaplik wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The 'Import VM/Template More Than Once' feature description can be
>> found under the following link:
>>
>> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/ImportMoreThanOnce
>>
>> Please review, and feel free to share your comments and thoughts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gilad.
>>
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> 
> 1. Missing high level (user level) summary. For example, what does it
> mean that a VM already exist in the setup? If I had a VM with 10GB disk,
> without an OS installed, then exported it, then installed an OS into it
> (so now the disk is a bit full, as opposed to the emptied exported one).
> Does it means that an identical entity already exist in the setup or
> not? (think of overwriting files).
> The design should (ALWAYS?) start with the user flow.
> 2. 'clone' doesn't strike me as a great parameter name in the API. Not
> in the UI either (but I don't have a better suggestion - yet).
> 3. What is the equivalent to 'suffix' in the API? Or do we expect to
> provide a name when we import? I'm not sure how the API works in the
> case of an existing VM, really. Only after we fetch via the API the fact

This reminds me that I was in a dilemma of suffix/prefix issue myself,
in Clone VM from snapshot feature.
I think this issue may be problematic , and for simplicity we should
simply provide a new name.

> it has an existing VM, we give it a new suffix?
> 4. Small typos (I'll fix them later directly in the wiki, except for the
> mockups, which I can't fix).
> Y.
> 
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