Yup, that's it, thanks. That helps clarify the issue, and Trevor should be happy :)
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Kelcey / Trevor - I think you got confused between 2 apis we have in > Cloudstack - restoreVirtualMachine and recoverVirtualMachine. > restore vm api restores a new volume for the vm keeping the IP address and > other attributes intact. This action is available only when the vm is stopped > or running state. Whereas recover vm is for recovering the vm and just > changes the state of the vm (from destroyed to stopped) and is available > when the vm is in destroyed state. > > But we show actions for only one of them in the UI actions. We should have > one for restoreVirtualMachine api as well. > > Thanks, > -Nitin > > > On 05-Jan-2013, at 10:35 AM, Kelceydamage@bbits wrote: > > We discussed this, but RestoreVM is for resurrecting a VM in status > 'Destroyed' before its expunged. > > Trevor wants to re-image an existing VM. You could also look it at snapshot > rollback. Being able to restore a VM to a previous state. > > Most importantly Trevor needs a solution that does not change or re-assign > the VMs IP due to corporate application restrictions. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Koushik Das > <koushik....@citrix.com<mailto:koushik....@citrix.com>> wrote: > > Take a look at restoreVirtualMachine API (com.cloud.api.commands.RestoreVMCmd) > > -Koushik > > From: Trevor Francis [mailto:trevor.fran...@tgrahamcapital.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 2:08 AM > To: > cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Restore a VM from template > > Is there a way to restore a VM from a template that was created from the API? > > > Trevor Francis > Partner > 46 Labs | PeerEdge Cloud Switch (PeCS) > http://www.46labs.com | http://www.peeredge.net > 720-214-3643- Voice > tre...@46labs.com<mailto:tre...@46labs.com> > > Solutions Provider for the Telecom Industry > > > >
