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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It seems ovirt API lacks of possibility to define storage domain, in which cloned vm (from snapshot) will be created, is it done on purpose, or it is just missing/under development ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Scenario using WEB GUI :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Create snapshot of any running VM, right-click on snapshot, select “clone”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In pop-up window you can enter new VM name etc, under “resource allocation” section *<b>you can select where it will be created</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Scenario using python-sdk/ovirt-api<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I was trying to create vm for example like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">##<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">vm_params <span class="sy0">=</span> params.<span class="me1">VM</span><span class="br0">(</span>name<span class="sy0">=</span>vm_from_list +
<span class="st0">'__bak'</span><span class="sy0">,</span> cluster<span class="sy0">=</span>api.<span class="me1">clusters</span>.<span class="me1">get</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="st0">"Default"</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
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snapshots<span class="sy0">=</span>snapshots_param<span class="br0">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">api.<span class="me1">vms</span>.<span class="me1">add</span><span class="br0">(</span>vm_params<span class="br0">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="br0">##<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="br0"># temp is „other“ storage domain, NFS v3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="br0">VM will be still created on same storage as original VM, no matter what domain I will define in params...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="br0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Also tried other variations, using templates, disk profiles and so on, but nothing has changed where new VM is created.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I know cloning is not intended for backup purpose, but it is workaround probably half of Ovirt users use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In my case, it is not very smart to do snapshot and create VM (allocate disk space, etc) on same storage domain where there is already running a lot of VMs, environment is already busy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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