[Users] MAC in use when importing/cloning a VM

Shahar Havivi shaharh at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 08:26:08 UTC 2013


On 06.02.13 08:36, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Le 05/02/2013 21:47, Itamar Heim a écrit :
> >you should be able to import as 'new' which will re-create all
> >uuid's/mac/etc.
> >otherwise, just edit the ovf.
> >cc-ing moti to consider something better going forward
> 
> Thank you to Shahar for your advice about the MAC address check.
> I tried that, restarted the engine, but i failed the same.
That should work..., if not its a bug
> 
> I also tried Itamar's advice but here is what's happening:
> - In the import windows, I select the VM, the system finds out the
> destination cluster and storage.
> - I then chekc the option "Clone All VMs" : the "suffix" option
> appears, pre-filled with "_Copy".
> - I already used it and it was working fine. This time, when
> validating with "OK", the "Suffix" field gets colored into yellow
> and I can not validate.
> - I tried to change its content to something else but it has no effect.
> - Of course, I already spent some times grepping the logs file
> searching for the MAC, but did not find anything obvious.
> - When the yellow border appears, nothing special is showing in the logs.
> 
> So here, oVirt is trying to tell me something, but what?
This is probably UI validation that failed to present the text.
Try to rename the xxx_Copy to xxx_Copy2 or any other name that is not in use.
> 
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> Nicolas Ecarnot
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