Hi all,

I've succesfully deployed OpenNebula and got two hosts up and running just fine. What I'm now running into is that the framework in OpenNebula doesn't really fit how we plan on using it. We host a lot of different, small to largish VMs that currently just have a local storage. We boot them with PXE or cdrom and then install their attached, local disk. After that we remove the cd and boot the machine again.

I'm looking for way to duplicate this, but I'm having a hard time fitting the templates to this mindset. The whole idea of using a master image is pretty clumsy for the way we're used to working. I can see how we can create a template for each VM type we have, but how would we add a local disk that doesn't wipe on a shutdown without actually having to create a separate image for each and every VM we host?

So in short, I'd like to see something like:

- Create a VM of this type, using these values (CPU, RAM, disk size).
- Simply create a local disk instead of doing the whole dance with images ssh'ed from the central server. - Either PXE boot or mount this CD to install from, then reboot and boot from the local disk.
- The disk image should be locally, but persistent.

I might simply be overlooking some parts of the documentation here, but a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

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Kind regards,
Tim
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