Hi, There are 2 different ways to create a vm from a template: * thin * clone
If you create a vm that is a thin-copy of a template, it works like a snapshot, creating a new volume on top of the template's disk. If you create a vm that is a full clone then you clone the whole disk image. did you created a thin-copy of the template? Gadi Ickowicz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sven Kieske" <s.kie...@mittwald.de> To: "Users@ovirt.org List" <Users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:57:28 PM Subject: [Users] actual disk size of vm via api Hi, I got a question regarding the reported actual disk size of a vm. you can obtain this value fine via api: https://your_engine/api/vms/{id}/disks/ however, if the vm is cloned from a template this disk size does not seem to show the actual size of the whole disk but instead the difference from the actual template size. is this a bug or a feature? I would like to obtain the "real" size. e.g. I have a template with 50GB (thin provisioned) the actual size of this template is 1,5 GB I clone a vm from this template, the actual size which gets reported via api is about 8 MB (stuff that changes from the template). So I can not obtain the complete used size of the vm. This was tested under ovirt 3.3.2 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen _______________________________________________ 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
