no command to rename an instance?

[James Troup]

Perhaps I'm just being dense (and if so, I apologize) but I can't seem to find any way to rename an instance once its launched. That seems unfortunate?

[Tycho Andersen (tycho-s)]

Hi James,

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 01:54:14AM -0000, James Troup wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Perhaps I'm just being dense (and if so, I apologize) but I can't seem
> to find any way to rename an instance once its launched. That seems
> unfortunate?

I think "lxc move" should be what you want, whether or not it behaves
correctly locally right now (there are a few bugs filed about this).
"lxc move foo bar" should change the name on the local host.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

We should probably reword the lxc move help a bit to help clarify.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I reworked the help quite a bit to help with this, patch is pending upstream review.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lxd - 0.27-0ubuntu1

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lxd (0.27-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (0.27)
    - Support for container disk quota (zfs and btrfs only)
    - Download progress during image copy and container launch (LP: #1530414)
    - Initial work on a LXC to LXD script (supports almost every
      configuration except for unprivileged containers)
    - New linux.kernel_modules container property (list of modules to
      load before starting the container)
    - New core.https_allowed_origin server property (controls the
      Access-Control-Allow-Origin header)
    - Profile changes are now live-applied to all affected containers
    - "lxc config edit" now works against servers too
    - Changes to security.nesting are now live-applied
    - Support for xfs with the lvm backend
    - "lxc image list" now supports filtering (by name, hash and properties)
    - Improved bash completion profile
    - The default remote is now visible in "lxc remote list"
    - "lxc info" now indicates whether a container is ephemeral or persistent
    - Various improvement to help messages
      (LP: #1531643, LP: #1530413, LP: #1531357)
    - A lot of bugfixes and other performance improvement, see:
      https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/

 -- Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:53:05 -0500