Re: [ovirt-users] difference between thin/depentend and clone/dependent vm virtual machine

On Apr 16, 2014, at 16:41 , Tamer Lima <tamer.americo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hello, > > I created VMs by two ways : > > 1) on tab virtual machines > new vm > template (centos_65_64bits) > 1.1 configuration : I do not select stateless checkbox > 1.2 this process takes a 1h30 to create each machine. > > 2) on tab pools > new vm > template (centos_65_64bits) > 2.1 default configuration : stateless > 2.2 Here I created 3 virtual machines at once > 2.3 this process takes only one minute > > On the tab virtual machines I can see all virtual machines. > Pooled machines have different icon image > and description is different too: > > machines generated from tab VM are described as clone/dependent > - clone is a phisical copy? > machines generated from tab POOL are described as thin/independent > - thin is a just a reference to template vm ? what is phisical? any configuration file? yeah, sort of. just google thin provisioning in general:) > > > In practice, what is the difference between these machines ? > > > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/PrestartedVm > "Today there are 2 types of Vm pools: > • Manual - the Vm is supposed to be manually returned to the pool. In practice, this is not really entirely supported. > • Automatic - once the user shuts down the Vm - it returns to the pool (stateless)." > > all vm created from pool are stateless ? the automatic pool, yes Thanks, michal > > > thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users