Why not use nova/keystone to rename instance/project # nova rename <instance_name> <new_instance_name> Also you cane rename a project using keystone: # keystone tenant-update --name <new_name> <tenant_id> Ali From: Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com<mailto:aleonhardt.py at gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 6:15 AM To: Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com<mailto:jjpavlik at gmail.com>> Cc: openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Rename VM (was: how can I make a new VM use the project name as sub-domain ?) actually, I found it in compute/api.py - inside the use of the templating for when you create more than 1 VM - all I need is to add context.project_name - i'll add this in properly this week and make a pull req to openstack nova api so everyone can add the project_id and/or the project_name as part of the hostname/s Alex On 21 August 2014 14:12, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com<mailto:jjpavlik at gmail.com>> wrote: If it is extremly necesary you could change it from the DB, but is not an API call at all. 2014-08-21 9:40 GMT-03:00 Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch<mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch>>: I don't think there is a rename VM command. I could not find a rename project command either when I looked in the past. Tim On 21 Aug 2014, at 10:35, Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com<mailto:aleonhardt.py at gmail.com>> wrote: > HI guys, > > any clues what API call I can make to nova-api to rename a VM ? > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -- Pavlik Salles Juan José Blog - http://viviendolared.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20140821/70365567/attachment.html>