File a GitHub issue/request for improvement Li... On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 14:48 Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT), < gregor.ri...@swisstxt.ch> wrote:
> Hi Jerry, > > I think this is because of the way a VM is tied to its root disk, and how > a root disk is chained to its template. > VMs created from ISO do not have such a chain. > > Technically, it shouldn't be an issue to swap out the root disk entirely, > though... > > Regards, > Gregor > ________________________________ > From: li jerry <div...@hotmail.com> > Sent: 10 December 2019 10:43 > To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org <d...@cloudstack.apache.org>; > users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: VM from ISO cannot execute restoreVirtualMachine > > Hello All > When I analyzed the restoreVirtualMachine API, I found that If the VM is > from ISO, newTemplate can only be ISO when executing restoreVirtualMachine. > > Why do we have such a design? > > From our application scenarios (I think most of them are the same), the VM > created by the user through ISO may need to be reinstalled through template > later. > > > > -Jerry > >
