Re: [Users] Do I really have to use ISO uploader?
Agreed. Many of us already have an existing directory of ISOs which is
NFS-shared, (I created mine while using VirtualBox for several years)
and would simply like to use it.
This is an issue which is on the To-Do list, but unfortunately didn't
make the first cut for 3.3.2 recently.
From what I understand, it should not be terribly difficult to change
oVirt to utilize it. I believe it was Itamar who previously described a
way on IRC to use symlinks to refer to existing ISOs.
It seems like most of the competition allows a VM to access any file
path for an ISO, rather than having to copy it into a storage domain
first. That would be much preferable in my opinion.
-Bob
On 11/23/2013 10:09 PM, Blaster wrote:
I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT. To attach an ISO to a
CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs, then go to the CDROM
and attach one of the ISO images and away I go.
Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use engine-iso-upload
which will create yet another copy of the ISO, before I can attach it to a virtual CD
device.
Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this isn’t true, that I
don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet
another copy that OVIRT can use.
There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and simply click “add to
inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to use image uploader to create yet another
copy of the image and wait for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it.
Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier.
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