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Animesh Chaturvedi updated CLOUDSTACK-1872:
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Assignee: (was: Venkata Siva Vijayendra Bhamidipati)
> Do not accept OVAs with multiple VMDKs for uploaded volumes or templates
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> Key: CLOUDSTACK-1872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1872
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Components: API, Template, VMware, Volumes
> Affects Versions: 4.0.1
> Reporter: Kirk Kosinski
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> CloudStack volumes and templates are meant to be one single virtual disk.
> This is always the case with KVM and XenServer/XCP since the files used for
> volumes and templates are virtual disks (QCOW2, VHD). However, VMware volumes
> and templates are in OVA format, which are archives that can contain a
> complete VM including multiple VMDKs and other files such as ISOs.
> Currently, CloudStack will accept an OVA with an invalid configuration,
> extract it to secondary storage, and allow end-users to use it. This can
> cause unintended behavior or possibly failures when an end-user does try to
> use it. At the very least, it wastes space on secondary and possibly primary
> storage. For example, here is a uploaded volume that contained two VMDKs on
> secondary storage:
> # ll /mnt/secondary/volumes/12/
> total 332
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 146944 Apr 1 16:38
> 3ab61094-8170-3139-a6b4-8edd2b4942ef.ova
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68608 Apr 1 16:35 blankvm2-disk1.vmdk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68608 Apr 1 16:35 blankvm2-disk2.vmdk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Apr 1 16:35 blankvm2.mf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5930 Apr 1 16:35 blankvm2.ovf
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 328 Apr 1 16:38 volume.properties
> Attaching this volume to a VM will result in both VMDKs being copied to
> primary storage, but only one will be attached to the VM.
> CloudStack should verify whether or not an OVA contains a supported
> configuration, and should give an error and reject the OVA if it is not
> supported.
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