[Users] issues when renaming a VM

[Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)]

Correction below: upon creating a new VM with the same name as the as
what the VM name was before the change to the name attribute results in:

VM <vmname> is down. Exit message operation failed: domain '<vmname> '
already exists with uuid <UUID>.

VM <vmname> was started by <username> (Host: <ovirtnodehostname>).

 

 

From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf
Of Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:40 PM
To: users at oVirt.org
Subject: [Users] issues when renaming a VM

 

Running into an oddity when changing the name attribute of a VM. When
the name attribute is changed via the either the WebAdmin or PUP it does
not update the <Name> element within the VM OVF. The database table
entry: vm_static --> VM_name does however get updated.

Upon trying to start the VM or restart it in the case of updating the
name while it was in a running state the below will occur:

 

VM <vmname> is down. Exit message operation failed: domain '<vmname> '
already exists with uuid <UUID>.

VM <vmname> was started by <username> (Host: <ovirtnodehostname>).

 

This can be worked around however by simply hand-editing the VM OVF and
changing the <Name> element to the desired name.

 

This is observed with the current released version of the ovirt-engine
(ovirt-engine-3.0.0_0001-1.6)

 

- Chris

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