[ovirt-users] Unable to rename disks via REST API

Juan Hernández jhernand at redhat.com
Wed Jun 28 11:03:34 UTC 2017


On 06/28/2017 12:55 PM, Bruno Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm sorry about bothering you again, but after trying it some times I'm
> still getting a "500 Internal Server Error". I'm using a REST client
> instead of CURL and I tried adding a "Version: 3" to headers and used
> the URL with the v3 as well.
> 
> I'm issuing a PUT of 
> 
> <disk><alias>Alias_for_disk</alias></disk>
> 
> To the URL
> 
> https://myserver/ovirt-engine/api/v3/vms/62498f51-0203-48b9-83c8-4c6f3bdfe05c/disks/583ed952-46a8-4bc5-8a27-8660e4a24ea2
> 
> I mean, I can live without it but we are using oVirt as a "static
> virtualization" environment and is quite useful for us being able to
> recognize easily each disk by its server name. In case I have to wait
> until the 4.2 API version to automatize this I'll do :(
> 

That should work. Can you please check if you get any useful message in
/var/log/ovirt-engine/server.log or /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log?

> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Bruno Rodriguez <bruno at pic.es
> <mailto:bruno at pic.es>> wrote:
> 
>     Thank you very much !!!
> 
>     I expected I was missing something like that. Thanks again!
> 
>     On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Juan Hernández
>     <jhernand at redhat.com <mailto:jhernand at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On 06/28/2017 10:43 AM, Bruno Rodriguez wrote:
>         > Thank you, Daniel
>         >
>         > I tried a PUT with the same XML body, I got a "405 Method Not Allowed".
>         > It's quite strange, there must be someting I'm missing
>         >
> 
>         The operation to update a disk will be introduced in version 4
>         of the
>         API with version 4.2 of the engine. Meanwhile the way to update
>         the disk
>         is to use version 3 of the API and the disks sub-collection of the
>         virtual machine. That means that if you have a VM with id 123
>         and a disk
>         with id 456 you can send a request like this:
> 
>           PUT /ovirt-engine/api/v3/vms/123/disks/456
> 
>         With a request body like this:
> 
>           <disk>
>             <alias>newalias</alias>
>           </disk>
> 
>         Note that you can use the above "v3" prefix in the URL or else the
>         "Version: 3" header. A complete example using curl:
> 
>         ---8<---
>         #!/bin/bash -ex
> 
>         url="https://.../ovirt-engine/api"
>         user="admin at internal"
>         password="..."
>         vm_id="..."
>         disk_id="..."
> 
>         curl \
>         --verbose \
>         --cacert "ca.pem" \
>         --header "Version: 3" \
>         --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
>         --user "${user}:${password}" \
>         --request PUT \
>         --data "
>         <disk>
>           <alias>newalias</alias>
>         </disk>
>         " \
>         "${url}/vms/${vm_id}/disks/${disk_id}"
>         --->8---
> 
>         >
>         > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Erez <derez at redhat.com <mailto:derez at redhat.com>
>         > <mailto:derez at redhat.com <mailto:derez at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>         >
>         >     Hi,
>         >
>         >     Updating is done using the PUT method.
>         >     Please try that with the same XML body.
>         >
>         >     Thanks,
>         >     Daniel
>         >
>         >     On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:26 AM Bruno Rodriguez <bruno at pic.es <mailto:bruno at pic.es>
>         >     <mailto:bruno at pic.es <mailto:bruno at pic.es>>> wrote:
>         >
>         >         Hello everyone,
>         >
>         >         I'm having some problems about renaming some disks (setting a
>         >         different alias, name or description) for VMs disks created from
>         >         a template. When I get this URL
>         >
>         >         https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123
>         <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123>
>         >         <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123
>         <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123>>
>         >
>         >         I can see are the methods sparsify, export, move and copy. I
>         >         tried to POST the following XML to the previous URL with no
>         >         result (as expected, it won't work)
>         >
>         >         <disk>
>         >           <alias>my_machine_Disk1</alias>
>         >         </disk>
>         >
>         >         I'm quite sure I'm thinking about it in a wrong way (as usual).
>         >         Any help would be welcome...
>         >
>         >         Thank you in advance
>         >
>         >         --
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