Agreed. Many of us already have an existing directory of ISOs which is NFS-shared, (I created mine while using VirtualBox for several years) and would simply like to use it. This is an issue which is on the To-Do list, but unfortunately didn't make the first cut for 3.3.2 recently. From what I understand, it should not be terribly difficult to change oVirt to utilize it. I believe it was Itamar who previously described a way on IRC to use symlinks to refer to existing ISOs. It seems like most of the competition allows a VM to access any file path for an ISO, rather than having to copy it into a storage domain first. That would be much preferable in my opinion.

-Bob On 11/23/2013 10:09 PM, Blaster wrote: > I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT. To attach an ISO to a > CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs, > then go to the CDROM and attach one of the ISO images and away I go. > > Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use > engine-iso-upload which will create yet another copy of the ISO, > before I can attach it to a virtual CD device. > > Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this > isn’t true, that I don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I > already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet another copy that OVIRT can use. > > There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and > simply click “add to inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to > use image uploader to create yet another copy of the image and wait > for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it. > > Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Agreed. Many of us already have an existing directory of ISOs which is NFS-shared, (I created mine while using VirtualBox for several years) and would simply like to use it. This is an issue which is on the To-Do list, but unfortunately didn't make the first cut for 3.3.2 recently. From what I understand, it should not be terribly difficult to change oVirt to utilize it. I believe it was Itamar who previously described a way on IRC to use symlinks to refer to existing ISOs. It seems like most of the competition allows a VM to access any file path for an ISO, rather than having to copy it into a storage domain first. That would be much preferable in my opinion. -Bob On 11/23/2013 10:09 PM, Blaster wrote: > I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT. To attach an ISO to a CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs, then go to the CDROM and attach one of the ISO images and away I go. > > Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use engine-iso-upload which will create yet another copy of the ISO, before I can attach it to a virtual CD device. > > Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this isn’t true, that I don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet another copy that OVIRT can use. > > There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and simply click “add to inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to use image uploader to create yet another copy of the image and wait for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it. > > Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users