On 05/13/2014 11:00 AM, nicola gentile wrote: > > Good morning, > I am new user, and I would ask you an information. > I have installed ovirt 3.4. > I created a pool with 3 vm, too. > > I should add software to 3 vm how I must proceed? > 1) I must delete the vm from pool, and than add the software and then > recreate the pool? > 2) or there are other solution? > > Thank you a lot. > > ng > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > do you want to use the VMs as stateless or statefull? did you use the pool to assign a single vm per user from user portal, or just to create a bunch of similar VMs? 3.4 has "template versions", so you can create a new version of the template, and next time you shutdown/start the VMs, they will rebase to latest version of the template if pool is so defined. you can also install the application on the VM after you start it as an admin (which doesn't create the stateless snapshot by default like when a user starts the pool'd vm from the user portal).

From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "nicola gentile" <nicola.gentile.to(a)gmail.com&gt;, &quot;Users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:29:41 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] update vm in a pool On 05/15/2014 05:07 AM, nicola gentile wrote: > Hi, > in a pool the vm is not stateless only? > I created a pool and I assigned users to it. > I applied your solution and it works fine. > I would like to tell you that after I upgrade the server, the firewall > is always abilitated though I've disabled. > After that I must disable the firewall. > > Thank you a lot for your help. > VMs from a pool are stateless (return to base on shutdown) if: - started from admin portal as stateless (via runonce) - started from user portal (as-is) in an automatic pool VMs from a pool are statefull if: - started from admin portal - the pool is manual - until the VM is "returned to pool". admin not being stateless allows to do the following; - create the pool - start the VMs from the admin portal (say, to have them sysprep) - shut them down, take a snapshot! - now use them as statless with the snapshot (Omer - was this use case checked with template versions - that all snapshots are deleted? does it delete the entire VM?)

> ng > > > 2014-05-14 1:42 GMT+02:00 Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;: >> On 05/13/2014 11:00 AM, nicola gentile wrote: >>> >>> Good morning, >>> I am new user, and I would ask you an information. >>> I have installed ovirt 3.4. >>> I created a pool with 3 vm, too. >>> >>> I should add software to 3 vm how I must proceed? >>> 1) I must delete the vm from pool, and than add the software and then >>> recreate the pool? >>> 2) or there are other solution? >>> >>> Thank you a lot. >>> >>> ng >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> do you want to use the VMs as stateless or statefull? >> did you use the pool to assign a single vm per user from user portal, or >> just to create a bunch of similar VMs? >> >> 3.4 has "template versions", so you can create a new version of the >> template, and next time you shutdown/start the VMs, they will rebase to >> latest version of the template if pool is so defined. >> >> you can also install the application on the VM after you start it as an >> admin (which doesn't create the stateless snapshot by default like when a >> user starts the pool'd vm from the user portal). > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >