How to add a Vm to a vApp ?

[FredTran]

Hello:

I'm trying to understand how to add a Vm to an existing vApp with vCloud 1.0 and find the vCloud spec (and its underlying object model) very confusing when it comes to vApp/Vm composition:

-the recomposeVApp request allows to remove a Vm from a vApp. Does it also allow to add a Vm to a vApp by specifying an Item element referencing an existing Vm as its source ?

-if true, the Vm being added necessarily comes from another vApp ? Does it imply that this Vm is reparented, i.e its original vApp loses one child and the recomposed vApp gains one ?

-is there a way to create a Vm without a vApp ?

-in the vCloud Java SDK, the vApp class provides a isVm method. Does it mean that there are two classes of vApp: vApps which are actually elementary Vm (and which cannot act as a parent of sub-Vm/vApp) and vApp proper ?

Thanks in advance

[rkamal]

Hi,

- yes, you can add vm's.

- no, creates a copy of the vm and attaches it to the newly recomposed vapp.

- no, A vApp contains virtual machines.

- yes, vApp's and VM's are represented as vApp's in the vCloud Java SDK. You can use the isVm(), to find if the SDK vApp class is a vApp or a VM.

Regards,

Rajesh Kamal.

[tejit2004]

Hi Rajesh,

Can you please provide me the code for the action (Recompose a vApp to Add or Remove Virtual Machines).

I have already composed a vApp (Not Instantiated) and Now I want to update the vApp by creating Virtual Machines, Document doesn't have proper XML. It's bits and pieces and I am not able to understand.

Can you please provide me the entire XML for that? My requirement is to create VMs.

Thanks,

Tejas Trivedi.