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From: "Livnat Peer" <lpeer@redhat.com> To: engine-devel@ovirt.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:07:01 PM Subject: [Engine-devel] VM disks
Hi,
These days we are working on various features around VM disks, in the different threads it was decided that we'll have the ability to attach a disk to a VM but it will be added as inactive, then the user can activate it for it to be accessible from within the guest.
Flow of adding a new disk would be: - creating the disk - attaching the disk to the VM - activating it
Flow of adding a shared disk (or any other existing disk): - attach the disk - activate it
It seems to me a lot like adding a storage domain and I remember a lot of rejections on the storage domain flow (mostly about it being too cumbersome). After discussing the issue with various people we could not find a good reason for having a VM disk in attached but inactive mode.
Of course we can wrap the above steps in one step for specific flows (add+attach within a VM context for example) but can anyone think on a good reason to support attached but inactive disk?
I would suggest that when attaching a disk to a VM it becomes part of the VM (active) like in 'real' machines.
+1 on that (regardless of whether the disk is shared or not). IMO - in the case of shared disk we should make it as clear as possible to the user/admin that the added disk is shared, but the flow should be exactly the same.
Thank you, Livnat _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel