[Users] Disk Images

[Ayal Baron]

----- Original Message -----
> There was a talk in the past to allow edit of the disk as its own entity
> it but I think that some of the disk params are vm dependent so editing
> them for disk only are a problem.
> Ayal, do you remember why editing the disk on it's own was not implemented?

Simply because we haven't gotten around to it yet.  You are correct that the edit screen would not be the same since some properties are only relevant in a VM context (interface, read-only, etc) which means we need a different screen there which is why it isn't a 5m job. Patches welcome ;)

> 
> On 02/13/2014 07:33 AM, andreas.ewert at cbc.de wrote:
> > Yes, I know! Why is there this restriction? I have the following scenario:
> > I have a "recover vm" with one bootable disk attached. Now I want to
> > repair some broken configs from another vm’s boot disk. First I unattach
> > the device from the broken vm. If I forget to remove the bootable flag,
> > then I have to attach the disk again to the broken vm. I remove the
> > bootable flag and attach the disk to my „recover vm“.  This is quite a
> > long way round.
> > This could be a feature request, right?
> >
> > best regards
> > Andreas
> >
> > Am 12.02.2014 um 16:37 schrieb Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com>:
> >
> >> disks can only be edited when attached to a vm
> >>
> >> On 02/12/2014 03:04 PM, andreas.ewert at cbc.de wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> If I remove a disk image from a Virtual Machine, then I can’t edit the
> >>> disk properties in the „Disks“ tab. (e.g. bootable flag)
> >>> It is only possible to change the flags on attached disks.
> >>> My test environments are engine versions 3.3.3 and 3.4 beta2
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Andreas
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> --
> >> Dafna Ron
> 
> 
> --
> Dafna Ron
>