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Richard W.M. Jones 2016-02-08 12:16:31 UTC Depends On 1292437
Jiri Denemark 2016-02-08 12:21:27 UTC Status NEW ASSIGNED
Assignee libvirt-maint mprivozn
Michal Privoznik 2016-02-08 13:18:03 UTC Status ASSIGNED POST
Doc Text Cause:
Libvirt exposes paths to disk images in its domain XML. However, the images are organized in datacenters and from just looking at a domain XML it's impossible to tell which datacenter is the disk image in. It's even hard to parse from connection URI.

Consequence:
Tools like libguestfs have troubles determining the datacenter that disk image is in.

Fix:
Expose the datacenter path in domain XML too under special tag: <vmware:datacenterpath>.

Result:
Everybody's happy since they now can get the datacenter path.
Richard W.M. Jones 2016-02-09 13:34:54 UTC Doc Text Cause:
Libvirt exposes paths to disk images in its domain XML. However, the images are organized in datacenters and from just looking at a domain XML it's impossible to tell which datacenter is the disk image in. It's even hard to parse from connection URI.

Consequence:
Tools like libguestfs have troubles determining the datacenter that disk image is in.

Fix:
Expose the datacenter path in domain XML too under special tag: <vmware:datacenterpath>.

Result:
Everybody's happy since they now can get the datacenter path.
Cause:
Libvirt exposes paths to disk images in its domain XML. However, the images are organized in datacenters and from just looking at a domain XML it's impossible to tell which datacenter is the disk image in. It's even hard to parse from connection URI.

Consequence:
Tools like virt-v2v have troubles determining the datacenter that disk image is in.

Fix:
Expose the datacenter path in domain XML too under special tag: <vmware:datacenterpath>.

Result:
Everybody's happy since they now can get the datacenter path.
Jiri Herrmann 2016-02-12 14:03:47 UTC CC jherrman
Doc Text Cause:
Libvirt exposes paths to disk images in its domain XML. However, the images are organized in datacenters and from just looking at a domain XML it's impossible to tell which datacenter is the disk image in. It's even hard to parse from connection URI.

Consequence:
Tools like virt-v2v have troubles determining the datacenter that disk image is in.

Fix:
Expose the datacenter path in domain XML too under special tag: <vmware:datacenterpath>.

Result:
Everybody's happy since they now can get the datacenter path.
With this update, the libvirt library adds the the "<vmware:datacenterpath>" tag to the domain XML file to, which the libguestfs library then processes in order to map the paths to the disk image on a VMware vCenter server. This allows for accessing disk images on the VMware vCenter server without the need for the "--dcpath" command-line flag.
Doc Type Bug Fix Enhancement
Jiri Herrmann 2016-02-12 14:47:28 UTC Doc Text With this update, the libvirt library adds the the "<vmware:datacenterpath>" tag to the domain XML file to, which the libguestfs library then processes in order to map the paths to the disk image on a VMware vCenter server. This allows for accessing disk images on the VMware vCenter server without the need for the "--dcpath" command-line flag. With this update, the libvirt library adds the the "<vmware:datacenterpath>" tag to the domain XML file to, which the libguestfs library then processes in order to map the paths to the disk image on a VMware vCenter server. This allows for accessing disk images on the VMware vCenter server without the need for the "--dcpath" command-line option.
Jiri Denemark 2016-03-02 16:41:01 UTC Status POST MODIFIED
Fixed In Version libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.4
errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-02 16:46:48 UTC Status MODIFIED ON_QA
mxie 2016-03-04 02:32:49 UTC Status ON_QA VERIFIED
Jiri Herrmann 2016-03-23 11:12:06 UTC Doc Text With this update, the libvirt library adds the the "<vmware:datacenterpath>" tag to the domain XML file to, which the libguestfs library then processes in order to map the paths to the disk image on a VMware vCenter server. This allows for accessing disk images on the VMware vCenter server without the need for the "--dcpath" command-line option. The virt-v2v utility now processes the "<vmware:datacenterpath>" tag, newly added to the domain XML file by the libvirt library, and maps the paths to the disk image on a VMware vCenter server. This feature enables accessing disk images on the VMware vCenter server without the need for the "--dcpath" command-line option.
errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-31 00:29:43 UTC Status VERIFIED RELEASE_PENDING
errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-31 22:08:17 UTC Status RELEASE_PENDING CLOSED
Resolution --- ERRATA
Last Closed 2016-03-31 18:08:17 UTC

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