Bug 1098114

Summary: Unable to change the "Operating System" type of a VM if the VM is running.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Udayendu Sekhar Kar <ukar>
Component: ovirt-engine-webadmin-portalAssignee: Nobody <nobody>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
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Priority: high    
Version: 3.3.0CC: acathrow, ecohen, gklein, iheim, michal.skrivanek, Rhev-m-bugs, rpai, yeylon
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Last Closed: 2014-05-16 07:00:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Udayendu Sekhar Kar 2014-05-15 10:34:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
If the VM is in the runnig state, its not possible to edit the 'Operating System' type. Its giving the below error message:

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Error while executing action:

rhel6-vm:

    There was an attempt to change VM values while the VM is not down. Please shut down the VM in order to modify these properties.
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm 3.3

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. If there is any existing VM running in rhevm 3.3, try to edit its 'Operating System' tyep.
2. It will fail with the below error message:

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Error while executing action:

rhel6-vm:

    There was an attempt to change VM values while the VM is not down. Please shut down the VM in order to modify these properties.
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Actual results:
Fail to edit the VM's operating System type while its running.

Expected results:
Should be able to edit the VM's Operating System type while the VM is running.
Comment 2 Michal Skrivanek 2014-05-16 06:59:11 UTC 
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962585#c9 for the list of changeable fields