> On 28 Nov 2018, at 10:39, Lucie Leistnerova <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/28/18 3:22 PM, Alex McWhirter wrote: >> On 2018-11-28 06:56, Lucie Leistnerova wrote: >>> Hello Alex, >>> >>> On 11/27/18 8:02 PM, Alex McWhirter wrote: >>>> In the admin interface, if i create a server template and make a VM out of >>>> it i get a Clone/Independent VM. If i use a dekstop template a get a >>>> Thin/Dependent >>>> >>>> In the VM portal i only get Thin/Dependent. >>>> >>>> How can i change this so that it's always Clone/Dependent for certain >>>> templates? >>> The default setting should depend on Optimized for: Desktop/Server on >>> the template. So when it creates Thin/Dependent VM for Server >>> template, I think that is a bug. >>> >>> I created an issue. Thank you for bringing that up. >>> >>> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-web-ui/issues/882 >>> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Lucie >> >> Ok, yes that would make sense. >> >> Any ideas where i can look to change this manually as a temp work around? > > When you use template with disk on a storage that doesn't support sparsify, > then it will not create thin disk on it. But I'm not sure how exactly that > works. > > What ovirt version you have? I've found some BZ with problem creating raw > disks from template, that should be fixed in 4.3. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471138 > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471138>
People always confuse two things - that bug talks about how the new disk will be written - which format and if it’s sparse or not depends on the format capabilities (comment 13), but the setting you see when creating a VM is about something else - you either keep a link to the original template disk or you make a completely separate clone. It’s limited by the format too, so e.g. for RAW the former option is not really possible > > -- > Lucie Leistnerova > Quality Engineer, QE Cloud, RHVM > Red Hat EMEA > > IRC: lleistne @ #rhev-qe > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > <https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/> > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > <https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/> > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VBTS2BLA4GW3K6SMMO2RFDFCMLSWCNDY/ > > <https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VBTS2BLA4GW3K6SMMO2RFDFCMLSWCNDY/>
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