Re: [ovirt-users] Template Independent vs Dependent

On 09/24/2014 08:40 PM, J. Mikulec wrote: > Hello, > > if I create VM from template through web manager, it shows in General - > Template "Clone/Independent". When created through REST API, it shows > "Thin/Dependent". When it is Thin/Dependent, it is not possible to > remove used template but VM creation is much faster. I would like to > have more info about this but cannot find any. So I cannot find how to > create Independent with REST API. > > Thanks, Jiri You have to use the "disks.clone" parameter, for example: #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="******" curl \ --verbose \ --insecure \ --request POST \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --data " <vm> <name>myvm</name> <cluster> <name>mycluster</name> </cluster> <template> <name>mytemplate</name> </template> <disks> <clone>true</clone> </disks> </vm> " \ "${url}/vms"