On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:10 PM tfe...@swissonline.ch < tfe...@swissonline.ch> wrote:
> Cloning VM's is a core feature of virtualization. > > I remember having cloned VM's back in the 90's with the free VMware > version 0.9. > > My main use case ever since is cloning fully configured production servers > into a testservers, for isolated testing. > > Why would a hypervisor not offer cloning, when it is possible and useful? > > regards, Toni > (Added users@ovirt.org back) Sure, it can be handy in some cases - that's why we've implemented it in oVirt and enhance it in 4.4.3 (for running VMs). But I wouldn't expect it to be commonly used via the user portal, that's why I am interested in the use-case. > > On 10.11.20 16:22, Arik Hadas wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:37 PM Nicolás <nico...@devels.es> wrote: > >> Hi Arik, >> >> El 10/11/20 a las 13:21, Arik Hadas escribió: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nicolás <nico...@devels.es> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sharon, >>> >>> Thanks for the reply! I've opened [1], so hopefully someone will be able >>> to implement it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Nico >>> >>> [1]: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/2389 >>> >>> El 10/11/20 a las 11:38, Sharon Gratch escribió: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This feature of cloning a VM was indeed part of the old User Portal and >>> you are right that it's not supported by the newer VM Portal (since oVirt >>> 4.3). >>> It seemed that this wasn't required by VM Portal users (no user >>> complained up till now) and that's why we omitted it and it's not part of >>> our current roadmap to implement it as well. >>> >>> Nevertheless, there is no real reason not to include that ability as >>> part of VM Portal, so you are most welcome to open an issue on >>> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-web-ui/issues >>> <https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues> >>> and you can push a fix yourself if you have time (or someone else from >>> the community) :-) >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Sharon >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:06 AM Nicolás <nico...@devels.es> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We're using oVirt 4.3.8, having an organization that intensively uses >>>> the User Portal. After upgrading from 4.2, we've noticed that cloning a >>>> VM from within the User Portal is not possible anymore. In our case, >>>> this feature was heavily used by hundreds of students deploying their >>>> VMs. >>>> >>> >> Out of curiosity, why cloning a VM and not provisioning the VMs from >> template(s)? >> >> >> >> Most of our students are IT-related, and their professors want to teach >> them the procedure to deploy a VM from scratch. Some other courses surely >> deploy their VMs from a template as they are not that IT oriented and they >> just want to have a working VM instead of building it from scratch. We have >> a lot of casuistry, but in our case about 400~500 students would very >> welcome having back the clone option. >> > > Thanks Nicolás. > I'd say that even for the IT-related students it may make more sense to > provision VMs from templates instead of cloning VMs - > so you want them to deploy VMs from scratch, which means starting with a > VM that is based on the blank template, add disk(s) and other devices, > install and configure the guest and such; and then the students would use > clone-VM to duplicate the VM they just prepared, right? > Why would you want them to clone the VM rather than creating a template > out of this VM and provision further VMs from that template with > thin-provisioned disks? > > >> >> Regards, >> >> Nico >> >> >>>> Is this feature in the roadmap yet? If not, do you consider it useful >>>> to >>>> open a RFE? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Nico >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org >>>> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>>> oVirt Code of Conduct: >>>> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>>> List Archives: >>>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/HFMFJRV3AC3GVLYZJ32KAZCIAO25P3X3/ >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org >>> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>> oVirt Code of Conduct: >>> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>> List Archives: >>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/RUEW52WZUD27INREQXQ2OPLBLQW2RMK4/ >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/QXPS6FCRT66HFI47OXTHTKFS3NONX5MB/ > >
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