Thanks for this. In our environment the engine (physical host) is on an isolated network so “normal” users wouldn’t have access to this, but perhaps I can find a way to expose it or use the APIs you mention. Cheers, Chris. From: Arik Hadas <ahadas(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: 06 November 2022 15:10 To: Christopher Law <chris(a)chrislaw.me&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual Machine Pools On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:19 PM Christopher Law <chris@chrislaw.me<mailto:chris@chrislaw.me>> wrote: Hopefully, someone can clarify this a bit for me… From the redhat instructions… “In principle, virtual machines in a pool are started when taken by a user, and shut down when the user is finished. However, virtual machine pools can also contain pre-started virtual machines. Pre-started virtual machines are kept in an up state, and remain idle until they are taken by a user. This allows users to start using such virtual machines immediately, but these virtual machines will consume system resources even while not in use due to being idle.” How do users request “take” virtual machines from the pool? For example with a windows machine where we want them to remote desktop into it using RDP? Or does this have to happen through some other portal? Do we have to give users access to the VM Portal? It generally refers to the VM portal - users should be able to access it and take virtual machines there and then, when their VM is allocated and started, they can connect to it using RDP. But it can alternatively be done using scripts/tools that do this via the API: https://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.5/#services/vm_pool/meth... Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org<mailto:users-leave@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/ZMSC3D3HPW4...