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<pre><code>1 </code><code><code>clone a template</code> from </code><code><code>template</code>
The user may clone a template from an existing template with different name.
Later he can customize some parts of the template to save the effort to create a full new template.
For example, he can update the network of the template cloned to have a new different template.
2. </code><code>we should also also user </code><code><code><code>clone a template</code> from vm</code>
</code>I just concern the image volume.
For vm may has no CDROM attribute.
Then does the template need to copy the image volume.
<code>For VM clone, can we make the the vm image as a backing file(or we can
call it base image).
Then we can create two new images for this vm and new vm.
All these two new images are a read/write snapshot of the original image,
-- any changes to new images will not be reflected in original image.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StorageVolBacking">http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StorageVolBacking</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot">http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot</a>
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Thanks and best regards!
Sheldon Feng(冯少合)<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:shaohef@linux.vnet.ibm.com"><shaohef@linux.vnet.ibm.com></a>
IBM Linux Technology Center</pre>
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