VM rename isn't persistant (vCloud Director)

[g3kk0]

Re-opened as the suggested fix (calling 'save' method) doesn't work.

Renaming a VM doesn't appear to work/persist in vCloud Director:

irb(main):085:0* vm
=> id="vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
vapp_id="vapp-56ab1743-d41e-42c3-8bad-8d1a958dc119",
vapp_name="testbox",
name="centos65x64",
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml",
href="https://myvdc.example.com/api/vApp/vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
status="off",
operating_system="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)",
ip_address="",
cpu=2,
memory=2048,
hard_disks=[{"Hard disk 1"=>10240}]

Editing it just as you would for cpu or memory changes it but it doesn't remain changed after a reload.

irb(main):105:0* vm.name = "node1"
=> "node1"

irb(main):085:0* vm
=> id="vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
vapp_id="vapp-56ab1743-d41e-42c3-8bad-8d1a958dc119",
vapp_name="testbox",
name="node1",
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml",
href="https://myvdc.example.com/api/vApp/vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
status="off",
operating_system="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)",
ip_address="",
cpu=2,
memory=2048,
hard_disks=[{"Hard disk 1"=>10240}]

irb(main):085:0* vm.reload
=> id="vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
vapp_id="vapp-56ab1743-d41e-42c3-8bad-8d1a958dc119",
vapp_name="testbox",
name="centos65x64",
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml",
href="https://myvdc.example.com/api/vApp/vm-fkgdcca5-725a-4e87-bff3-46ef41480b53",
status="off",
operating_system="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)",
ip_address="",
cpu=2,
memory=2048,
hard_disks=[{"Hard disk 1"=>10240}]

Calling the suggested vm.save method doesn't work as the method doesn't seem to exist like it does for the network object.

irb(main):033:0> vm.save
NoMethodError: undefined method save' for #Fog::Compute::VcloudDirector::Vm:0x000000019e48b8
from (irb):33
from /home/mnewman/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p448/bin/irb:12:in'

[geemus]

@g3kk0 Thanks, let me see if I can get somebody with more expertise in vcloud to help out.

@mikepea Hey, could you check this out and advise? Thanks!

[mikepea]

I'm not surprised it doesn't work, as the put_vm service request that it depends on was only added somewhat recently. It's probably a small fix to get it wired up into the Model, will look at that shortly (just became a dad tho, so no promises!

Not sure why save is not implemented though, again will take a look at why that is - prob docs are out of date.

There is a clean workaround for changing the VM name though, which is to do:

fog_connection_obj.service.put_vm(id, new_name)

On 14 Mar 2014, at 14:28, Wesley Beary notifications@github.com wrote:

@g3kk0 Thanks, let me see if I can get somebody with more expertise in vcloud to help out.

@mikepea Hey, could you check this out and advise? Thanks!

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[g3kk0]

@mikepea Thanks for the workaround.

Much appreciated.

[geemus]

@mikepea - congrats on dad-hood!

[plribeiro3000]

@g3kk0 @mikepea @geemus Still needs fix?

[geemus]

There is a way to be able to do it, but it would be good to wire that in to the model. So yeah, we should probably leave this for now. Thanks!

[trilitheus]

Hi there, any chance you could expand on how to implement this workaround?

v = Fog::Compute::VcloudDirector.new(vcloud_director_username: "#{user}@#{org}",
                                      vcloud_director_password: pass,
                                      vcloud_director_host: host,
                                      vcloud_director_show_progress: true)

vm_id=v.organizations.get_by_name(org).vdcs.first.vapps.first.vms.first.id

v.put_vm(vm_id, 'new-vm-name')
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 3)

v.service.put_vm(vm_id, 'new-vm-name')
NoMethodError: undefined method `put_vm' for Fog::Compute::VcloudDirector:Class

[trilitheus]

For anyone else....

v.put_vm(vm_id, 'new-vm-name', {})

This does the trick

[geemus]

@trilitheus thanks!