On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Juan Hernández <jhern...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/02/2017 03:56 PM, Bruno Rodriguez wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have some scripts that create VMs, which are in perl using libcurl and
> > oVirt REST API. They work quite fine but I'm experiencing something
> unusual.
> >
> > After I create the machine (let's suppose it's called server.pic.es
> > <http://server.pic.es>) with UUID 123abc I post the following REST API
> > call to https://... /vms/123abc/nics
> >
> >                 <nic>
> >                 <name>server.pic.es_nic1</name>
> >                 <interface>virtio</interface>
> >                 <network><name>VLANXXX</name></network>
> >                 </nic>
> >
> > The NIC is created and attached to the VM but it's network field is
> > empty, not in the VLANXXX. I don't know if I'm missing something but
> > this worked flawlessly with 3.6.9 REST API.
> >
> > Some people could say: "it's because you're using Perl". Yup, that's
> > probably a mental issue of mine and I should visit a doctor about using
> > it, but it doesn't work even using a fancy REST browser extension to
> > send requests (ARC for chromium), anyways the REST reply is a "201:
> > Created" that looks OK...
> >
> > Any idea or suggestion will be welcome. Thanks in advance!
> >
>
> It is not because of Perl :-) .
>
> In version 4 of the API it is mandatory to specify the NIC profile, as
> the network may have multiple profiles. So you need to find the
> identifier of that NIC profile and then send a request like this:
>
>   <nic>
>     <name>server.pic.es_nic1</name>
>     <interface>virtio</interface>
>     <vnic_profile id="the_id_of_the_profile"/>
>   </nic>
>
> You can find the identifiers of the profiles like this:
>
>   GET /ovirt-engine/api/networks/the_identifier_of_the_network/
> vnicprofildes
>
> If you want the old behavior, the behavior of version 3 of the API, you
> can just add to your request the 'Version: 3' HTTP header. But note that
> version 3 of the API is deprecated since version 4.0 of the engine, and
> it will be removed with version 4.2 of the engine.
>

Thank you very much, I'll probably have to check that and add an "if"
because I already was having problems with the APIv4 disks creation...

Thanks again!
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