On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney(a)gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com>> wrote: That _is_ what I did! Hmm. Makes it an external process to track VM lineage without that data. So use the thin-provision only to allow this tracking. And this works with windows VMs? will test shortly. Yay! New VM from template works fine and much faster. So the default for servers is to clone but the desktops is to thin-provision. As all of my "servers" are used more like desktops (bug testing not actually being servers), other than the icon change and thin vs clone disk provisioning, what else should I expeect to be different?

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com <mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote: On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: Greetings, I've built several new templates from the blank template and a ISO install of various OS's. However, when I built a new VM using the new template(s), the new VM still says it's based from the blank template. I expected it to say it was from the "template-foo" U specified. The VM is correctly built from the template so I think it's a generation/database issue. I'm guessing you used 'clone' (default for new server) rather than 'thinly provisioned' (default for new desktop). clone means the template disk is copied/cloned for better performance, rather than COW (less space). when the disk is cloned, there is no longer a relation to the original template at storage level. -- -- James P. Kinney III //// ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain //// http://electjimkinney.org http://heretothereideas.__blogspot.com/ <http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/> //// _________________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/__mailman/listinfo/users <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> -- -- James P. Kinney III //// ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain //// http://electjimkinney.org http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ //// -- -- James P. Kinney III //// ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain //// http://electjimkinney.org http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ ////