On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:54:55AM +0000, Likitha Shetty wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, Cloudstack only supports Template creation based on OVA files > containing a single disk. If a user creates a template from a OVA file > containing more than 1 disk and launches an instance using this template, > only the first disk is attached to the new instance and other disks are > ignored. Similarly with uploaded volumes, attaching an uploaded volume that > contains multiple disks to a VM will result in only one VMDK to being > attached to the VM. > > This behavior needs to be improved in VMWare to support OVA files with > multiple disks for both templates and uploaded volumes. For e.g. If a user > creates a template from a OVA file containing more than 1 disk and launches > an instance using this template, the first disk should be attached to the new > instance as the ROOT disk, volumes should be created based on other VMDK > disks in the OVA file and should be attached to the instance. >
+1, but question. Why VMware only? > I will soon propose a Functional Spec for this improvement. > > The corresponding JIRA ticket can be found at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4757 . > > Thanks, > Likitha >
