OK, thanks for the history there. What about the text we're using? Are we OK with Reset VM, for example?
Thanks! On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Jessica Wang <jessica.w...@citrix.com>wrote: > Mike, > > > > Right. > > > > The history is recoverVirtualMachine API was created several years ago, > restoreVirtualMachine didn't exist yet at that time. > > So, the icon that fires recoverVirtualMachine API was labeled as "Restore" > at that time. > > > > restoreVirtualMachine API came along several years later. > > Then, since label "Restore" has already taken, the icon that fires > restoreVirtualMachine API was therefore labeled as "Reset". > > > > The result is indeed weird. > > We'll fix the label to match API name. > > > > Jessica > > > > *From:* Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:03 AM > *To:* Jessica Wang > *Cc:* Brian Federle; Harikrishna Patnala; Alena Prokharchyk; > dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Stephen Turner > > *Subject:* Re: Resetting a VM is broken? > > > > Thanks, Jessica > > > > The even weirder part, though, is that the text Restore maps to the > recoverVirtualMachine API and the text Reset VM maps to the > restoreVirtualMachine. > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jessica Wang <jessica.w...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > > [Mike Tutkowski] Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, it looks like > > > label.action.restore.instance (Restore Instance) maps to > recoverVirtualMachine > > and > > label.resetVM (Reset VM) maps to restoreVirtualMachine > > Yes, this is confusing. > I'll file an UI bug to match icon label with API name. > i.e. The icon that fires recoverVirtualMachine API will be labeled as > "Recover" > and the icon that fires restoreVirtualMachine API will be labeled as > "Restore" > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Federle > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:29 AM > To: Alena Prokharchyk > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Brian Federle; Jessica Wang; Mike > Tutkowski; Harikrishna Patnala > Subject: Re: Resetting a VM is broken? > > >> the Reset Vm option is presented as a button unlike the icons > > I think this was because all the other icons we tried to represent this > with were too confusing to users - they were clicking on 'reset VM' > thinking it was 'reboot VM' - then as a last minute fix the decision was to > just to show a text label. > > > Any ideas from anyone on what would be a good icon representation? > > -Brian > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < > alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > 1) Didn't notice "the elephant" - that the Reset Vm option is presented > as > > a button unlike the icons for other options. UI folks - Brian/Jessica- > why > > we decided to represent this option differently in the UI? > > > > 2) Mike, I've looked at the code and the history. We've always allocated > a > > new volume during the vm restore call. Hari, can you please confirm that > > this feature you wrote, was designed to work this way > > > > > > -Alena. > > > > > > On 3/19/14, 2:41 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > wrote: > > > >> To clarify: Reboot VM seemed to keep the VM running and just reboot the > >> OS. > >> > >> Reset VM seemed to shut the VM down and then re-start it (with the same > >> root disk for the OS). > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > >> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I could be wrong, but I thought as recently as 4.3 that Reset VM > >>> essentially stopped and then re-started the VM with the same root disk. > >>> > >>> It seemed to differ from Reboot VM only in the sense that the VM was > >>> never > >>> technically stopped (the OS inside the VM was just rebooted). > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > >>> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm using XenServer 6.1 hosts (two of them) in this case. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > >>>> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Yeah, stopping and restarting works fine...as does, I believe, > >>>>> rebooting > >>>>> the VM. > >>>>> > >>>>> Right below Reboot VM, there is a Reset VM option. > >>>>> > >>>>> If that means "re-install," then we probably should clean up the old > >>>>> root disk. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < > >>>>> alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> don¹t see ³Reset Vm² option in UI; do you mean ³Reboot instance²? > >>>>>> I¹ve > >>>>>> just tried that, as well as calling stop/startVM from the UI. The Vm > >>>>>> boots > >>>>>> up with its original disk. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I¹m having Xen/Nfs, not sure it matters > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -Alena. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 3/19/14, 2:19 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> I didn't look into what the GUI calls, but I invoked the Reset VM > >>>>>> option > >>>>>>> in > >>>>>>> the GUI. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Thanks > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < > >>>>>>> alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Mike, just to confirm - did you call > >>>>>>>> stopVirtualMachine/startVirtualMachine apis? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -alena. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On 3/19/14, 1:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" > >>>>>> <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> I noticed today while running through some test cases for 4.4 > >>>>>> that > >>>>>>>>> resetting a VM does not work as expected. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Instead of the typical stop and re-start behavior where the VM is > >>>>>>>> booted > >>>>>>>>> back up using the same root disk, the VM gets a new root disk > >>>>>> when > >>>>>> it > >>>>>>>> is > >>>>>>>>> booted back up. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Can anyone confirm this finding for me with his or her setup? > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Thanks! > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>>> *Mike Tutkowski* > >>>>>>>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >>>>>>>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >>>>>>>>> o: 303.746.7302 > >>>>>>>>> Advancing the way the world uses the > >>>>>>>>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >>>>>>>>> *(tm)* > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>> *Mike Tutkowski* > >>>>>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >>>>>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >>>>>>> o: 303.746.7302 > >>>>>>> Advancing the way the world uses the > >>>>>>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >>>>>>> *(tm)* > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> *Mike Tutkowski* > >>>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >>>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >>>>> o: 303.746.7302 > >>>>> Advancing the way the world uses the > >>>>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >>>>> *(tm)* > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> *Mike Tutkowski* > >>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >>>> o: 303.746.7302 > >>>> Advancing the way the world uses the > >>>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >>>> *(tm)* > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> *Mike Tutkowski* > >>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >>> o: 303.746.7302 > >>> Advancing the way the world uses the > >>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >>> *(tm)* > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> *Mike Tutkowski* > >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >> o: 303.746.7302 > >> Advancing the way the world uses the > >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >> *(tm)* > > > > > > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > o: 303.746.7302 > > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *(tm)* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *(tm)*
