Hi Arik,
El 10/11/20 a las 13:21, Arik Hadas
escribió:
Hi Sharon,
Thanks for the reply! I've opened [1], so hopefully
someone will be able to implement it.
Regards,
Nico
[1]:
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/2389
El 10/11/20 a las 11:38, Sharon Gratch escribió:
Hi,
This feature of cloning a VM
was indeed part of the old User Portal and you are
right that it's not supported by the newer VM
Portal (since oVirt 4.3).
It seemed that this wasn't
required by VM Portal users (no user complained up
till now) and that's why we omitted it and it's
not part of our current roadmap to implement it as
well.
and you can push a fix
yourself if you have time (or someone else from
the community) :-)
Thanks!
Sharon
Hi,
We're using oVirt 4.3.8, having an organization
that intensively uses
the User Portal. After upgrading from 4.2, we've
noticed that cloning a
VM from within the User Portal is not possible
anymore. In our case,
this feature was heavily used by hundreds of
students deploying their VMs.
Out of curiosity, why cloning a VM and not provisioning
the VMs from template(s)?
Most of our students are IT-related, and their professors want to
teach them the procedure to deploy a VM from scratch. Some other
courses surely deploy their VMs from a template as they are not that
IT oriented and they just want to have a working VM instead of
building it from scratch. We have a lot of casuistry, but in our
case about 400~500 students would very welcome having back the clone
option.
Thanks Nicolás.
I'd say that even for the IT-related students it may make more sense to provision VMs from templates instead of cloning VMs -
so you want them to deploy VMs from scratch, which means starting with a VM that is based on the blank template, add disk(s) and other devices, install and configure the guest and such; and then the students would use clone-VM to duplicate the VM they just prepared, right?
Why would you want them to clone the VM rather than creating a template out of this VM and provision further VMs from that template with thin-provisioned disks?