Hi Gregor, the code around managing VM details for existing VMs (CONTROLLER specifically) could be a bit better - but in short - there is NO way to change existing controller type from the current ones (for VMware specifically) using CloudStack (btw you "can" make the change in the GUI, while VM is stopped - there is a "Settings" tab there.)
You "can" change these details on the VM level (existing VMs) via API/GUI, this changes the records in the "user_vm_details" table - but simply these new values are NOT read/applied during starting an existing VM - actually, even when you change that in GUI (or DB) and start a VM - these values will be reverted back. I just did more tests - and the way to change it would be to stop VM, go to vCenter, change (all 4 controllers) to " LSI Logic SAS" (or any other you want) - then go back to CloudStack and edit VM details (Settings tab, while VM is stopped) to "lsisas1068" - simply to sync ACS to reality (to vCenter). Make sure to do proper testing, since changing root controller driver in Windows can sometimes cause it to fail boot. Best, Andrija On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 21:44, Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT) < gregor.ri...@swisstxt.ch> wrote: > > > $ cloudstack addResourceDetail "details[0].key=rootDiskController" > > "details[0].value=lsisas1068" "resourcetype=UserVm" "resourceid=$id" > > Note: lsisas1068 comes from > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/4.11.2.0/vmware-base/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/ScsiDiskControllerType.java > > We had set this to lsilogicsas previously (on CS 4.5), which causes the > following exception on start on CS 4.11.2.0: > > com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Invalid root disk > controller detected : none > at > com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.resource.VmwareResource.execute(VmwareResou > rce.java:1690) > at > com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.resource.VmwareResource.executeRequest(Vmwa > reResource.java:496) > at > com.cloud.agent.manager.DirectAgentAttache$Task.runInContext(DirectAgen > tAttache.java:315) > at > org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable$1.run(Mana > gedContextRunnable.java:49) > > ... > -- Andrija Panić
