[ovirt-users] Rename disks when creating VM from Template

[Liron Aravot]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gilad Chaplik" <gchaplik at redhat.com>
> To: "s k" <sokratis123k at outlook.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 10:39:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Rename disks when creating VM from Template
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "s k" <sokratis123k at outlook.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:07:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Rename disks when creating VM from Template
> > 
> > Just noticed that I can actually change the disk name at the bottom of
> > Resource Allocation. Apparently I never scrolled down to the very bottom :)
> 
> Hi Sokratis,
> 
> Great that you've managed to handle it, but if it took you time to realize
> that, I think it's a bug.
> Can you please open one?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=oVirt
> 
> Thanks,
> Gilad.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > From: sokratis123k at outlook.com
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Subject: Rename disks when creating VM from Template
> > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:59:55 +0300
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have noticed that when I create a VM from a template the disks of the VM
> > have the name of the Templates's disk.
> > 
> > What I would like is to be able to rename the VM's disks based on the
> > hostname.
> > 
> > For example the template I use have the following disk names:
> > 
> > VM_Template_Disk1
> > VM_Template_Disk2
> > VM_Template_Disk3
> > 
> > When I create a new VM (e.g. testvm01) the disk names remain the same. What
> > I
> > would like is to be able to rename them automatically as below:
> > 
> > testvm01_Disk1
> > testvm01_Disk2
> > testvm01_Disk3
> > 
> > At the moment I'm editing the names manually using the oVirt GUI.
> > 
> > Is it possible to do this automatically?
Hi Sokratis,
if you could open an RFE for that it'll be great.
basically it's a matter for preference, if you created your template with "meaningful" disk names, you might want to keep it.
I completely agree that one may prefer automatic naming without keeping the original names.

thanks,
Liron
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Sokratis
> > 
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