----- Original Message ----- > On 26/04/12 22:24, Schoenbrun, Dustin wrote: > > I know that floating disks are coming in the next version of oVirt, > > but > > in the interim I want to know internally what the procedure is when > > a > > disk is cloned when creating a VM from a template.
I'm not sure what floating disks have to do with it (it would be relevant for cloning a single disk, not cloning an entire VM). For cloning a single disk I believe that floating disk is already available in master by the way. > > > > Hi, > > Today when creating a VM from template the user can choose the > provisioning method: > - It can be 'Thin' in which the engine is taking a snapshot of the > template disks (running AddVMCommand which executes > CreateSnapshotFromTemplateCommand) > - Or 'Clone' which results in cloning the template disks (executes > AddVmFromTemplateCommand which in turn executes > CreateCloneOfTemplateCommand) For createCloneOfTemplateCommand, other than the VM configuration being copied, the engine creates copies of all of the template images (calls moveImage in vdsm per Image). > > > Thanks, Livnat > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
