Hello Phillip,
/isoid/ is working only when ISO image is attached to instance. It
contains information only about attached ISO.
But anyway this is a bit odd, when I need to call API requests, which
return error, to find is this instance from ISO or template.
So is this documentation and removed API feature, or something else?
Maybe some of developers can say comment this?
On 03/16/2015 07:56 PM, Phillip Kent wrote:
Hello Martins,
that's a good observation.
What happens for me is that, for deployment from ISO, the response
values are duplicated:
templateid = isoid
templatename = isoname
templatedisplaytext = isodisplaytext
On the other hand, for deployment from template, the response does not
contain any values for isoid, isoname, isodisplaytext .
You would think for consistency, if the iso... response values are set
then the template... response values should not be set.
But I expect there are internal functions which look for a value for
templateid so if it is missing it makes things more complicated.
In order to know which VMs you have are based on ISO image, you could
do a selection of those for which response['isoid'] has a value.
(In Python, trying to find response['isoid'] will throw a KeyError
exception it if is missing, so you can extract the VM info you need
with
try:
....
except KeyError:
....
)
Note: I am using CloudPlatform 4.3.0, but it has some customisation so
may not be standard behaviour.
Phillip
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From: "Mārtiņš Jakubovičs" <[email protected]>
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:58:58 +0200
Subject: Get information
Hello,
I want to get a list of instances which are created from ISO images.
API documentation
<http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/root_admin/listVirtualMachines.html>
tells, that templateid should return -1 if instance is created from
ISO image, but it returns ISO image ID instead. Is that a bug?
Thanks.
