That _is_ what I did! Hmm. Makes it an external process to track VM lineage without that data.
So use the thin-provision only to allow this tracking. And this works with windows VMs? will test shortly. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Itamar Heim <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I've built several new templates from the blank template and a ISO >> install of various OS's. However, when I built a new VM using the new >> template(s), the new VM still says it's based from the blank template. I >> expected it to say it was from the "template-foo" U specified. The VM is >> correctly built from the template so I think it's a generation/database >> issue. >> >> > I'm guessing you used 'clone' (default for new server) rather than 'thinly > provisioned' (default for new desktop). > clone means the template disk is copied/cloned for better performance, > rather than COW (less space). > when the disk is cloned, there is no longer a relation to the original > template at storage level. > > >> -- >> -- >> James P. Kinney III >> //// >> ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What >> >> you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on >> his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. >> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain >> //// >> http://electjimkinney.org >> http://heretothereideas.**blogspot.com/<http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/> >> //// >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >> >> > > -- -- James P. Kinney III * *Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain * http://electjimkinney.org http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ *
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