[Engine-devel] Registering an existing disk or VM through the REST API

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/20/2012 04:18 PM, Morrissey, Christopher wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As many of you know, we’re working on adding a plugin to oVirt for
> NetApp storage controllers. The plugin will allow users to add a new
> storage domain and rapidly clone VMs using the native ONTAP APIs. Our
> plan is to do this outside of oVirt in a separate engine and then
> register the new storage domain or cloned VMs through the REST API.
>
> I’ve been going through the oVirt code and I’m not able to find a way to
> register an existing VM or disk through the REST API. Am I missing
> something or is this functionality that needs to be added? As part of
> the cloning process we can generate new UUIDs for the cloned disks and
> images, but I don’t see a way to get them recognized by oVirt.
>
> This functionality is very important to moving forward on our plugin and
> I can certainly help add this capability if needed.

missing today, but i thought this is what domain scan was about?
http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/Domain_Scan
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8219/1

>
> -Chris
>
> *Chris Morrissey*
>
> Software Engineer
>
> NetApp Inc.
>
> 919.476.4428
>
>
>
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