Il 24/11/2013 15:33, Itamar Heim ha scritto: > 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.
Opened a RFE for tracking this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034112 If anybody will prepare that script, I can take care of that when I'll have time. > >> >> -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. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users@ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users