Flight Log / microsoft/openvmm #1657
petri: don't create vms with super long names — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/openvmm on Jul 7, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +172 −33, 1 file, 11 reviews.
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- fix
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Copilot, on microsoft/openvmm, attempts a fix so Petri stops creating VMs with overly long names. The test-name-derived VM names exceed Hyper-V's length limit and fail creation. The change touches one file across six commits, adding 172 lines and removing 33. After 11 reviews and 12 comments, the pull request closes unmerged, a burn.
“@mattkur - I'm not sure how important it is to have unique VM names, what do you think?”
— from the review (source)
From the pull request description
Hyper-V limits VM names to 100 characters, but Petri was using full test names directly as VM names. Long test names like `multiarch::openhcl_servicing::hyperv_openhcl_uefi_aarch64_ubuntu_2404_server_aarch64_openhcl_servicing` (102 characters) caused VM creation to fail with error 0x80070057 "The pa…
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, microsoft/openvmm#1657, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/microsoft/openvmm/1657/
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