[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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> "Si algo me ha enseñado el tetris, es que los errores se acumulan y
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> Bruno Rodríguez Rodríguez
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> "Si algo me ha enseñado el tetris, es que los errores se acumulan y los
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