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rayk_sland

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is there some way that on creation of new vms, the script could examine the directory if it exists and give you the choice of selecting a vm disk file that's already there?

(o and congrats on the new intel modular server. Same box I have, slightly different config, but I'm sure there are no end of ways to set it up)
 
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not sure if I understand you correctly. if you create a new VM there is no existing dir. can you explain it by an example?
 
tom said:
not sure if I understand you correctly. if you create a new VM there is no existing dir. can you explain it by an example?
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sometimes you might want to move guest files around without using the backup and restore facility.

so if you want to add an existing file to a vm or replace the main disk in a vm and you copy/move that file to the vm directory, there's no way in the web gui to simply attach that replacement/new file to the vm.

the only way is to create an empty file with the right params and then replace it with your file by renaming it manually.

Seems like something that should be fairly possible unless there's no way to read the right parameters right off an existing guest file.
 
rayk_sland said:
sometimes you might want to move guest files around without using the backup and restore facility them.

so if you want to add an existing file to a vm or replace the main disk in a vm and you copy/move that file to the vm directory, there's no way in the web gui to simply attach that replacement/new file to the vm.

the only way is to create an empty file with the right params and then replace it with your file by renaming it manually.

Seems like something that should be fairly possible unless there's no way to read the right parameters right off an existing guest file.
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you can just add new hard disk via gui, and then you can select create a new one OR attach exisiting ones (must be already in the same folder).
 
Thank you. That was precisely the functionality I was talking about. Somehow I missed it, apparently. Thanks for your patience.
 
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