[ovirt-users] how to rename disk alias on python sdk

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 11:29 +0100, Amedeo Salvati wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I want to rename a disk alias using python sdk, but I cannot find an
> update method for object returned from api.disks.get (like cdrom, vm,
> datacenter objects).
> 
> Simplified code is:
> 
> d1 = api.disks.get(id="7408f728-97e5-4b10-beb7-d9a70083797e")
> d1.get_alias()
> 'FSBOVRHEL66TMP-1412_Disk1'   <-- OLD alias
> d1.set_alias('PIPPO_Disk1')
> d1.get_alias()
> 'PIPPO_Disk1'                 <-- NEW alias
> 
> but after that I cannot find a method like d1.update() to "commit"
> changes of disk object, what I miss?
> 
> Best regards
> Amedeo Salvati
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This is how we do it:

        DISK_NAME = '%s_Disk1' % (VM_NAME)
        try:
            vm = api.vms.get(VM_NAME)
            vmdisk = vm.disks.list()[0]
            vmdisk.alias = '%s' % (DISK_NAME)
            vmdisk.update()
        except Exception as e:
            raise(e)


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