Bug 1075919

Summary: [Docs] [Feature] Updating VM metadata without shutting down the VM
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Zac Dover <zdover>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Lucy Bopf <lbopf>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: brice <bfallonf>
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Version: 3.4.0CC: acathrow, gklein, juwu, lbopf, yeylon
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Description Zac Dover 2014-03-13 08:30:44 UTC 
I can't say this any better than it was said in the bug linked below, so here it is:

BEGIN QUOTE
It would be useful if we could update some of the metadata that doesn't directly affect the running VM:

Name: especially during the export import process VMs sometimes end up with extra stuff in the name (or just typos), it would be useful to be able to update this without having to shutdown the VM

Description: Same reason as name

High Availability: When VMs are imported they don't bring with them the high availability settings and people don't always remember to tick the box when creating the VM.  Having to shutdown the host in order to enable high availability is self defeating, and during an outage caused by a fenced hypervisor, you don't always remember to go in and update the setting.

Hypervisor Migration/Pinning options: Same logic as HA options.
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The RFE in the PRD is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962585
Comment 1 Lucy Bopf 2014-04-14 02:17:16 UTC 
I have added a list of parameters that can be edited while a virtual machine is running to the Editing Virtual Machine Properties section of the Admin Guide and User Guide.
Comment 2 Lucy Bopf 2014-04-16 05:51:07 UTC 
Documentation Link
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http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.4/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Editing_Virtual_Machine_Properties1

What Changed
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The following topic was revised to include this feature. This topic now includes a list of parameters that can be edited while a virtual machine is running.

Editing Virtual Machine Properties [ 12677-630969 ]

Updated revision history: [ 30102-631246 ]

NVR
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Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-Administration_Guide-3.4-web-en-US-3.4-19.el6eng

Moving to ON_QA.
Comment 3 brice 2014-07-18 02:17:50 UTC 
Checked:

http://docbuilder.usersys.redhat.com/22626/#Editing_Virtual_Machine_Properties1

List of editable parameters has been put in. Verified.