Also we have an option to create a template out of a ROOT disk (pre-requisite is: instance needs to be in stopped state).
-SWAMY -----Original Message----- From: Abhinandan Prateek [mailto:abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:15 PM To: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Very basic query but no boday ask me about creating template from guest vm >-----Original Message----- >From: Jewel Nuruddin [mailto:jewel.nurud...@yahoo.com] >Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:09 PM >To: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack- >d...@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Very basic query but no boday ask me about creating template >from guest vm > >Hi, > >So what if user work on a guest and he did lots of work on his vm and >he want to keep this backup, so you guys ask me to take a snaphot, so >in Cloudstack this snaphot will not run? then how can user get his >current stats in a new vm ? >well you said make a template from this snapshot ....right ? yes I can >make template .....but this template is not start or I can not create >new vm from this template...... What error do you get when you create a VM from the template ? -abhi