[ovirt-users] Query on VM Clone

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 11:21 +0200, Ondra Machacek wrote:
> On 03/29/2018 11:09 AM, Hari Prasanth Loganathan wrote:
> > Hi Team,
> > 
> > 1) I perform the VM clone using the following API
> > 
> > api/vms/{vmId}/clone
> > 
> > 2) The above API is returning the job id
> > 3) Using the job Id, we continuously query the oVirt to get the
> > status 
> > of the clone operation.
> > /api/jobs/${vmCloneJobId}
> >      We are able to successfully get the status of the clone
> > operation.
> > 
> > But the problem is, we are not able to identify the newly created
> > VM 
> > (created using clone).
> > 
> > AFAIK, The only way to get the newly created VM is to get all the
> > VM 
> > list from oVirt. Is there an easy way to identify the newly created
> > VM 
> > using the jobId?
> 
> In order to run the clone operation you must pas the VM name, so you 
> know the name, so later to fetch the VM you can just run:
> 
> api/vms?search=name=thenameofclonnedvm

Hijacking this a little, because I got curious about something:)

Is it possible to do regex searches? Because I remember working on
something different, the searches could potentially end up with
multiple matched objects, like "thenameofclonnedvm",
"thenameofclonnedvm-berta", "thenameofclonnedvm3" and so on. So I was
always forced to treat the result as a potential array, loop the
objects (this was with Python) and test for an exact match, even if it
was just one object. So it would be nicer if you could go like:

api/vms?search=name='^thenameofclonnedvm$'

And be sure to have an exact match every time. Is that possible?

TIA

/K

> 
> Is this approach OK for you?
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hari
> > 
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