[ovirt-users] Re: Clone a VM in the User Portal

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

On 10.11.20 16:22, Arik Hadas wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:37 PM Nicolás <nicolas(a)devels.es&gt; wrote: > Hi Arik, > > El 10/11/20 a las 13:21, Arik Hadas escribió: > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nicolás <nicolas(a)devels.es&gt; 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 <nicolas(a)devels.es&gt; 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(a)ovirt.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)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/HFMFJRV3AC3... >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)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/RUEW52WZUD2... >> > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)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/QXPS6FCRT66...