A.90 edit VirtualApplianceVirtualDisk

Edits a virtual disk in a virtual appliance.

Syntax

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

Where instance is:

{ id=value | name=value }

Description

This command edits the attributes of a virtual disk in a virtual appliance. You cannot delete a VirtualApplianceVirtualDisk object. You can only delete it by deleting the virtual appliance itself.

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

Options

The following table shows the available options for this command.

Option	Description
`name=value`	A name to identify the virtual appliance virtual disk.
`description=value`	Optional description for the virtual appliance virtual disk. `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=MyVirtualApplianceVirtualDisk`.

Option

Description

name=value

A name to identify the virtual appliance virtual disk.

description=value

Optional description for the virtual appliance virtual disk. 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=MyVirtualApplianceVirtualDisk.

Examples

Example A.115 Editing a virtual appliance virtual disk

OVM> edit VirtualApplianceVirtualDisk name=MyVirtualApplianceVirtualDisk description='Oracle Linux Release 6'