<commit_before>---
title: ImportMoreThanOnce
category: feature
authors: derez, ekohl, gchaplik
wiki_category: Feature
wiki_title: Features/ImportMoreThanOnce
wiki_revision_count: 16
wiki_last_updated: 2014-07-13
wiki_warnings: list-item?
---

# Import VM or Template More than Once Feature

### Owner

*   Name: [ <NAME>](User:gchaplik)
*   Email: <<EMAIL>>

### Summary

Adding the functionality to import VMs and Templates that already exist in setup, in fact this feature consists of changing the identifiers of an imported VM/Template.

### Current status

*   Design Stage
*   Last updated date: Sun Feb 19 2012

#### Affected oVirt projects:

*   Core
*   Webadmin
*   API/CLI

### Design

note: unless specified 'entity' may refer both to VM and Template oVirt Entities.

#### Core:

*   Add to ImportEntityParameter parameter class boolean member that indicates whether this entity should be cloned, the default value is false.<commit_msg>Updated ImportMoreThanOnce<commit_after>---
title: ImportMoreThanOnce
category: feature
authors: derez, ekohl, gchaplik
wiki_category: Feature
wiki_title: Features/ImportMoreThanOnce
wiki_revision_count: 16
wiki_last_updated: 2014-07-13
wiki_warnings: list-item?
---

# Import VM or Template More than Once Feature

### Owner

*   Name: [ <NAME>](User:gchaplik)
*   Email: <<EMAIL>>

### Summary

Adding the functionality to import VMs and Templates that already exist in setup, in fact this feature consists of changing the identifiers of an imported VM/Template.

### Current status

*   Design Stage
*   Last updated date: Sun Feb 19 2012

#### Affected oVirt projects:

*   Core
*   Webadmin
*   API/CLI

### Design

note: unless specified 'entity' may refer both to VM and Template oVirt Entities.

#### Core

*   Add to ImportEntityParameter parameter class boolean member that indicates whether this entity should be cloned, the default value is false.
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