On 11/24/2013 05:19 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
Agreed. Many of us already have an existing directory of ISOs which is
NFS-shared, (I created mine while using VirtualBox for several years)
and would simply like to use it.

This is an issue which is on the To-Do list, but unfortunately didn't
make the first cut for 3.3.2 recently.

 From what I understand, it should not be terribly difficult to change
oVirt to utilize it. I believe it was Itamar who previously described a
way on IRC to use symlinks to refer to existing ISOs.

It seems like most of the competition allows a VM to access any file
path for an ISO, rather than having to copy it into a storage domain
first. That would be much preferable in my opinion.

indeed.
if someone can write a helper script to re-map a regular iso store as a storage domain, i think would help as a srop gap - should be simple.


-Bob

On 11/23/2013 10:09 PM, Blaster wrote:
I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT.   To attach an ISO to a
CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs,
then go to the CDROM and attach one of the ISO images and away I go.

Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use
engine-iso-upload which will create yet another copy of the ISO,
before I can attach it to a virtual CD device.

Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this
isn’t true, that I don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I
already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet another copy that OVIRT can use.

There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and
simply click “add to inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to
use image uploader to create yet another copy of the image and wait
for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it.

Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier.



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