A.89 edit VirtualAppliance

Edits a virtual appliance.

edit VirtualAppliance instance [ name=value ] [ description=value ]

Where instance is:

{ id=value | name=value }

This command edits the attributes of a VirtualAppliance object.

Although none of the options are mandatory, you must supply at least one option.

The following table shows the available options for this command.

Option	Description
`name=value`	A name to identify the virtual appliance.
`description=value`	Optional description for the virtual appliance. `value` is a maximum of 4,000 characters. To set an empty description, use `description="".`
{ `id=value` \| `name=value` }	The instance of the object using either the `id` or `name` option, for example `name=MyVirtualAppliance.ova`.

Option

Description

name=value

A name to identify the virtual appliance.

description=value

Optional description for the virtual appliance. value is a maximum of 4,000 characters.

To set an empty description, use description="".

{ id=value | name=value }

The instance of the object using either the id or name option, for example name=MyVirtualAppliance.ova.

Example A.114 Editing a virtual appliance

OVM> edit VirtualAppliance name=virtualappliance.ova description='Oracle Linux Release 6'