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[Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vish,

Also the name is not unique, so if you do this you will have big problems
> if two users chose the same name.


I manage and decide instance names, so this should not be a problem.

Thanks ;)


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 28, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Just tried this, it works but I'd also like to rename
> /var/lib/nova/instances/ according to the hostname. At the moment this only
> rename (output from nova show):
> >>
> >> | OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name       | mon-nom
> >>
> >> Is it possible?
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >
> > Changing the name should change the dir in /var/lib/nova/instances,
> although it must be in nova.conf on the compute host and nova-compute will
> need to be restarted before you launch the instance.
> >
> > Vish
> >
>
> Also the name is not unique, so if you do this you will have big problems
> if two users chose the same name.
>
> Vish