+1 this, but you may want to send it to the dev list. :-) Lucian
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Williams" <david.willi...@interoute.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, 13 November, 2014 11:36:22 > Subject: Feature requests and a feature request: userid field in the > vm_instance table > Hi all, > > Is this mailing list the right place to raise feature requests? If so, I have > a > small one. > > I think it would be handy if the userid of the user that created a VM was > recorded in the database in the vm_instance table. Currently, the only way I > know of to find the user that deployed a VM is by checking the logs. There's > an > owner field in the vm_instance table but this seems to be the account ID of > the > account the user belongs to. > > By being able to find the user that deployed a VM, it makes VM cleanups much > easier since you know who to contact for each VM. A similar thing in the other > tables for the other resources would be useful too when trying to cleanup > networks and volumes, etc. Also, if this change went ahead, then the API and > GUI could be changed also to show the user details for the VM when listing the > VM's details. > > Thanks, > > Dave