Comment 7 for bug 1664575

I see - the instance_name is generated along the "instance_name_template" config option, where the id is a counter that gets increased by nova -> the name instance000001 is generated by nova and not by virsh)

Regarding "device_metadata": I guess we need to first figure out what this field was intended for...

It seems like the name of an instance can be generated based on every instance property as well [1]. But not sure which one to use...

What about requesting that we can set the object-id on partition creation in DPM? Then we could set the object-id = uuid of instance.

Maybe we need to get Markus involved here - he might have more Nova insights....

[1] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/15.0.0.0rc2/nova/objects/instance.py#L295