Yes, that's what I meant. As the documentation says, SOURCE is a restricted attribute and by default will only be allowed to be used by users in the oneadmin group, this can be changed in oned.conf
By the way, you are linking to the documentation for version 3.4, if you installed the latest OpenNebula you have 3.8. Regards -- Carlos Martín, MSc Project Engineer OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula<http://twitter.com/opennebula><[email protected]> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ismael Farfán <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/12/12 Carlos Martín Sánchez <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > You can also use the IMAGE/SOURCE attribute directly. This will use your > > files without copying them to the datastore, but you should be careful > > because they will be deleted if you execute a 'oneimage delete'. > > Do you mean writing an Image Definition [1] with SOURCE pointing to > the absolute path to my VM, then register it with oneimage and using > it's ID in the VM template? > > I'll give that a try, if my HDD doesn't start spinning then I'm ok with it > : ) > > Thanks > Ismael > > > > [1] > http://opennebula.org/documentation:archives:rel3.4:img_template > > > > > > Regards > > -- > > Carlos Martín, MSc > > Project Engineer > > OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization > > www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Simon Boulet <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Ismael, > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Ismael Farfán <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> So after all that rant this is the question: > >>> Is there a way to mimic the absolute path (source) behavior of 2.2? > >>> > >>> I don't really mind registering the images, as long as they remain > >>> where I happen to have them and with the meaningful name that I give > >>> them. > >>> > >> > >> You would have to write your own datastore driver for this. You could > >> start by copying the fs driver and customize it to your own liking. See > >> /var/lib/one/remotes/datastore/ for the datastore drivers source. > >> > >> Simon > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >> > > > > > > -- > Do not let me induce you to satisfy my curiosity, from an expectation, > that I shall gratify yours. What I may judge proper to conceal, does > not concern myself alone. >
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