How to over-write VMs in Export-Domain via REST API ?
Issue
- The issue is, when a VM is already present in the export-domain and one tries to re-export the same VM again to the Export-domain, using the following curl syntax, one cannot achieve the same:
# curl --insecure -u admin@internal:***** -X POST -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-type:
application/xml" -d "<action><storage_domain><name>export</name></storage_domain><overwrite>true</overwrite>
<discard_snapshots>false</discard_snapshots></action>" https://rhevm.example.com:8443/api/vms/6925bb76-178e-4bf4-bfbf-f05c1adc0193/export
-
The curl syntax is executed from RHEV-Manager.
-
The following reply is returned:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<action>
<storage_domain>
<name>export</name>
</storage_domain>
<discard_snapshots>false</discard_snapshots>
<status>
<state>failed</state>
</status>
<fault>
<reason>Operation Failed</reason>
<detail>[Cannot export VM. VM with the same identifier already exists.]</detail>
</fault>
</action>
-
The tag
has been used, which should overwrite the files on the export-domain. -
This tag is completely being ignored and instead the following error is returned:
"Cannot export VM. VM with the same identifier already exists"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
- REST API
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