Hi Andrija,
Thanks for the clarification and quick response
regards,
Ran
On 11/16/2018 02:15 PM, Andrija Panic wrote:
Hi Ran,
templates stays on Primary Storage "forever", at least for NFS (they are
moved from Secondary to Primary when you deploy a very first VM from
specific template). All VMs have this templates qcow2 as baking (parent)
image.
This template is a qcow2 copy of a file from Secondary Storage - and is
considered a "parent" image, from which all child images (VM volumes) are
created - as you stated baking file (qcow linked clones, in official
terminology)
you can have i.e. 100 VMs all linking (having it's backing file...) to a
template qcow2 file.
So in other words, it's not supposed to be removed.
Does this make sense?
Cheers
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 22:38, ran huang <ran.huang...@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings All,
For qcow2 format images, when creating a new VM in KVM, the template
image is copied from secondary storage to primary storage, and the root
volume image is created with the template image as a backing file.
But when I break this backing chain on primary(expunge VM or revert to a
snapshot previously created on the root volume image), the template
image is not deleted.
Might I ask how is the template image going to be cleaned from the
primary storage?
addendum:
CS ver 4.9.2 on CentOS 7.2
regards,
Ran
