| Summary: | RFE: Improve for VM selecting when vm's name is also a meaningful ID or UUID | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Xiaodai Wang <xiaodwan> |
| Component: | virt-viewer | Assignee: | Pavel Grunt <pgrunt> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.4 | CC: | dblechte, juzhou, kuwei, mtessun, mxie, mzhan, pgrunt, rbalakri, tzheng |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | virt-viewer-5.0-1.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2017-08-01 15:04:11 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Xiaodai Wang
2016-11-28 09:05:47 UTC
I think it is quite unusual to name a VM name to a id. Anyways we should better document how the selection process works or maybe add some cmdline option to specify if the VM is specified by name/id/uid. So adding a new (optional) option to be able to specifically tell virt-viewer it is connecting to a VM-name, VM-ID or VM-UUID, e.g. for your usecase: $ virt-viewer -c qemu:///system 3 Would still connect to id=3 (being rhel7.3-1005) $ virt-viewer --vm-name -c qemu:///system 3 would then connect to the VM with name "3". Sounds more feasible to me, as it would not break automation scripts for opening VM consoles without the possibility of doing user interaction. I agree with Martin. The situation described in the comment 0 is interesting but it is a corner case. cli options like --name, --id, --uuid (i would omit the 'vm' to match similar options in other virt tools) I followed case (https://polarion.engineering.redhat.com/polarion/#/project/RedHatEnterpriseLinux7/workitem?id=RHEL7-85842) and verified it with virt-viewer-5.0-2.el7.x86_64 in below env. All steps are success. # virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 1 rhel7.3-1005 running 2 e8fc0fd9-8415-44b6-9ef9-cd9a8d5b05f2 running 3 1 running So move the bug from ON_QA to VERIFIED. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1849 |