[ovirt-users] Re: Creating VMs from templates with their own disks

On 2021-11-17 12:02, notify.sina(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi All > > Im very stumped on how to create VMs from templates I've made, but > having them installed with their own disks. > Please can some one guide me on how to do this? > I have Ovirt running, with local storage hypervisors. > > Anytime I try to use a template, the vm is created and booted with the > template's disk. > I would especially appreciate how to do this with ansible. > Im trying to automate CentOS and Ubuntu VMs. > _______________________________________________ > 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/OX5MWWMYAW4... When you make a VM from a template there are two possibilities. If the VM type is set to desktop, a qcow overlay is created against the template's disk images. Any changes made in the VM are stored in the overlay.. If the VM type is set to server the template's disks are copied to a new disk, it will have the same name as the template disk, but it is in fact a new disk with the template data copied over.