[one-users] VMs instantiated from template have incorrect name?

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

You can use the -n (--name) option with onetemplate instantiate.

Regards.
--
Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Graeme Gillies
<graeme.r.gillies at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I currently have a vm template in onetemplate that looks like the following
>
> TEMPLATE 0 INFORMATION
> ID             : 0
> NAME           : gg-devel
> USER           : ggillies
> GROUP          : users
> REGISTER TIME  : 12/02 14:43:50
> PUBLIC         : No
>
> TEMPLATE CONTENTS
> CPU=1
> DISK=[
>  BUS=virtio,
>  DRIVER=raw,
>  IMAGE_ID=4,
>  TARGET=vda,
>  TYPE=DISK ]
> DISK=[
>  BUS=virtio,
>  SIZE=1024,
>  TARGET=vdb,
>  TYPE=SWAP ]
> GRAPHICS=[
>  LISTEN=0.0.0.0,
>  TYPE=vnc ]
> MEMORY=512
> NAME=gg-devel
> NIC=[
>  NETWORK_ID=0 ]
> OS=[
>  ARCH=x86_64,
>  BOOT=hd ]
> TEMPLATE_ID=0
>
> You can see in the template the name of the vm is "gg-devel".
>
> However, when I use
>
> onetemplate instantiate 0
>
> And look at the running vm the name is just the generic "one-XX"
>
>    ID USER     GROUP    NAME         STAT CPU     MEM        HOSTNAME
>       TIME
>    43 ggillies users    one-43       runn  15    512M virt-02-cloud.l
> 00 00:03:25
>
> Is this a bug or intended? I'd like to be able to add vm templates
> into the library and when they are instantiated have the correct name
> from the template. I understand that people might be able to
> instantiate multiple instances of a template, but in that cause,
> shouldn't every instance after the first have a number appended? In my
> use case, the disk images are marked as persistent so people won't be
> able to instantiate more than 1 instance at a time.
>
> Any clarification would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Graeme
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