How to rename disk images in local-lvm?

[HE_Cole]

Hello Everyone!

I need to be able to rename disk images stored in local-lvm. We have a gui site that uses the Promox API and when our users go to create a VM and select an OS template all they see is vm-9000-disk-0,vm-9001-disk-0 etc.

Currently each of the vm-9000-disk-0,vm-9001-disk-0,vm-9002-disk-0 corresponds to a different OS for cloning to create a new vm.

I just want to rename each disk from vm-9000-disk-0 TO os-name-version like "Ubuntu-16-04-LTS" so users would see name of the os they want to use NOT vm-9000-disk-0.

I use the below to import my images to lvm.

qm importdisk 9000 bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-lvm

Then i add the imported image to my vm for cloning with

qm set 9000 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 local-lvm:vm-9000-disk-0 "i would change this to my new name"

Thanks a Bunch

 

[GarrettB]

Are you looking to rename it in the Options?

 

[HE_Cole]

Hey there!

I am not sure what you mean by in the options, But in the GUI if your under Your-Server then Local-lvm then disk-images yes thats where the images are listed. I believe local-lvm is a block storage system so i dont know where images in it are stored or how to edit there names.

I just need to know how to simply rename disk images stored on local-lvm to what ever name i want.

 

[dietmar]

You cannot simple rename the disk using arbitrary names, because we encode and use information stored in the disk name.

 

[HE_Cole]

Thanks dietmar ! Thats very interesting, So is there any way to add data the name without messing with the encoding? Right now our users just see vm-9000-disk-0 etc and have to look at a list to which number corresponds to a OS it would help us alot to be able to add the friendly name of the OS to the disk image name some how.

Thanks

 

[dietmar]

Anything starting with "vm-$vmid-" should be ok (replace $vmid with the ID of the VM).