Hello Sorry for the late reply, work has been crazy.
This doesnt seem to work as advertised, or I am still not getting it. Either way I would really appreciate some help and guidance. Steps I have attempted: 1. Create and configure VM as I want it to be (disk, partitioning, etc). 2. Shutdown the vm, create a template from it. Cloning manually: Cloning fails with this message: Error while executing action: clone00.domain.tld: - Cannot add VM. One or more provided storage domains are either not in active status or of an illegal type for the requested operation. I cant modify the storage allocation, and the disk its attempting to use is the disk of the source VM. Manual template install: Choosing to install manually with a template requires me to add a new disk, and to boot off the CD (defined in the template) and manually set things up. This I do not wish to do, because I would rather automate. Cloning with ansible, defining the cloud-init script and using the template: VM is successfully created, but logging in with remote-viewer drops me into the installation process (setting up from the attached ISO). Which is also not desired. Please help me with what I am doing wrong. Again the goal is to have the vm setup with its own credentials. On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 9:24 AM Staniforth, Paul < p.stanifo...@leedsbeckett.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello, > The VMs can get created from a template otherwise the blank > template is used if a particular template is used it can be thin dependent > VM the VMs disks is linked to the Templates disk and it just carries the > changes made in the VMs disk (this is quicker and uses less space if you a > lot of disks). The other option is to create a cloned VM and this will copy > the Templates disk to the VM so it's no longer dependent. > > In the ansible documentation look for the clone option. > > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ovirt/ovirt/ovirt_vm_module.html > > > https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/virtual_machine_management_guide/index.html > Virtual Machine Management Guide > <https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/virtual_machine_management_guide/index.html> > oVirt is a free open-source virtualization solution for your entire > enterprise > www.ovirt.org > For the cloud-init does the cloud-init package need to be installed on the > template image? > > > Regards, > > Paul S. > ------------------------------ > *From:* notify.s...@gmail.com <notify.s...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* 18 November 2021 07:34 > *To:* users@ovirt.org <users@ovirt.org> > *Subject:* [ovirt-users] Re: Creating VMs from templates with their own > disks > > Caution External Mail: Do not click any links or open any attachments > unless you trust the sender and know that the content is safe. > > Im sorry, I am trying to wrap my head around this but it is difficult. > > I just want to be able to stand up new vms, with their own storage, > similar to how I can with plain vanilla KVM, with a template or without, > maybe even with a kickstart, and hopefully with ansible. > > Right now anytime I try to create a VM, using the template, (with > ansible), it gets the template disk attached, and from the console I see > the new vm is named as the vm I created the template with. Cloud init > script that is meant to rename the vm, and join it to IPA, is ignored. > > If I create storage for the vm, before creating it, both the template > storage and the new storage are attached to the vm, which is also > confusing. Cloud init is also ignored. > > I didn't think something this straightforward would end up needing a shift > in thinking about how vms are created, especially with a product that's > more than likely using kvm under the hood. > > I would appreciate some straightforward guiding steps, if I can get them. > Really. It's been a frustrating week. > > > > On 2021-11-17 13:50, Sina Owolabi wrote: > > > > > > You can create a template with no disk, then VM's created from that > > template will also have no disk. Then add a new disk to the VM after you > > create it. This is how the default blank template works. You can also > > create a template with an empty disk, then every VM created will also > > get an empty disk by default. 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