From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney(a)gmail.com&gt; To: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:22:32 PM Subject: [Users] mislabelled template source 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.

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From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:41:06 PM Subject: Re: [Users] mislabelled template source On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Eli Mesika < emesika(a)redhat.com > wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Kinney" < jim.kinney(a)gmail.com > > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:22:32 PM > Subject: [Users] mislabelled template source > > > 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. Hi Jim Did you created the VM from the Web Admin UI or from the API ? Hi Eli, Yes. I used the web admin gui.

> > -- > -- > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > 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/

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Eli Mesika <emesika(a)redhat.com <mailto:emesika@redhat.com>> wrote: <snip> > > Yes. I used the web admin gui. can you try to browse to http[s]://<ip>:<port>/api/vms Look at the result and see if you got the same from the API to figure out if this is a UI issue According to api/vms, everything of type server was built using <template href="/api/templates/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"/> while all desktop types show the correct template (or at least a template ID that's not "blank"). Usual process: from a blank template - install OS (windows/linux) from iso. Save that vm as <os>_raw template once agent tools loaded (no OS patches applied). Use the <os>_raw template to build a new VM which gets all current patches. Save that as a new template. so far, no VM shows a heritage other than "blank" if it was built with a preallocated drive space from a template other than blank.