Re: [Openstack] display_name, hostname, and muliple instances

There are a couple of OpenStack users that are looking to expand the instance hostname capabilities of OpenStack - or at least develop a way for users to influence how hostnames are generated. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/dns-driver-instance-hostname -- Sean M. Collins __

Re: [Openstack] display_name, hostname, and muliple instances

In the osapi name from the request is always converted to display_name. There is no logic for appending a launch_index, although I also remember that something like that was done before. Code for generating hostname is here: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/api.py#L653

[Openstack] display_name, hostname, and muliple instances

Hi Folks, I'm trying to understand the difference between "display_name" and "hostname" in the instances table, and struggling a bit to track their use though the code. It looks to me as if: display_name is always the name specified by the user hostname is a s