RHEVM: No decimal (.) allowed in VM name. Special character ?
Hi
Possible bug in v3.0. Please could you confirm or advise if it should be raised as an RFE ?
Decimals or dots (.) are not allowed as a VM name when creating a new server profile. Therefore, FQ domain type names are not allows. For example "machine1.pgds.local"
Error implies that it considers dot (.) as a special character.
Thanks
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When using sysprep and VM templates, a VM name is the hostname sysprep will assign the VM. Dots in a hostname, obviously, cannot be used, because that will turn a hostname into a fqdn.
There are some ideas in place to change this behaviour, probably for the non-windows VMs, but this is behind on the priorities right now.
So if using dots is extremely important for you, please open a case, in order to add weight to the existing bug report.
Guru
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Interestingly, when I use virt-v2v to migrate a VM from a KVM server into RHEV and the VM has a dot in the name, RHEV allows it.
Only when creating a new server does it complain.
Dots are not hugely important but good for consistency when migrating environments.
I will be raising an RFE.
Thanks Dan
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