Re: [ovirt-users] Permissions to Import VMs

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > I have a group of local users with permissions to create VMs, templates, > and VMs from templates. They are allowed to work only in one of the > clusters in the datacenter. > > Now I want one of the local users to be able to import VMs and convert > them into templates and I just can't find the recipe for that. > > The group has these permissions: > > LocalUsersGroup -> [PowerUserRole] -> DEV1 (Cluster) > LocalUsersGroup -> [PowerUserRole] -> SAN (Storage) > LocalUsersGroup -> [TemplateCreator] -> OFFICE (Datacenter) > > LocalUserA is part of LocalUsersGroup and should be able to: > - Import a VM > - Convert the VM to a template for everyone to use > - Delete the VM > > I tried this: LocalUserA -> [VmImporterExporter] -> System > > LocalUserA can now import VMs and convert them to templates but it can't > delete the imported VMs. For some reason [UserVmManager] role is not > assigned to LocalUserA on the VMs that were imported. > Right, that seems to be a bug. The import operation should set the user that executes it with UserVmManager role on the imported VM, just like add VM does for regular VM creation. Could you please file a bug? > > Before I start messing around I'd appreciate somebody's else opinion on > how this should be done. > > Thank you for your time, > > -- Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >