[pve-devel] Continuing on making the VM ID suggestion strategy configurable

[Daniel Krambrock]

Hi everyone,

please excuse me for leaving this issue lying around. I am very pleased 
that Severen is interested in continuing this patch and takes over the work.

Am 30.08.24 um 01:08 schrieb Severen Redwood:
> There's a patch series [2] from a few months ago which addresses this by
> making the VM ID suggestion strategy configurable with the following
> options:
> 
> 1. Use the smallest ID that is not currently in use (current behaviour).
> 2. Use one greater than the largest ID in use.
> 3. Use the smallest ID that is neither currently nor previously in use.
> 
> In particular, option 3 is the one that would best solve the problem for
> me.

You are of course right, only option 3 solves the problem as also 
Shannon pointed out.

> However, the patches are stuck on some unresolved feedback and the
> author (CC'd in) seems to have either paused or abandoned work on the
> feature. For this reason, I'm interested in picking up where they left
> off to get the feature to an acceptable state. Is this OK?

For me this is more then OK, thank you. In case it's still important: I 
have already signed the Harmony CLA.

Yours sincerely,
Daniel