[Engine-devel] CloneVMFromSnapshot - feature document

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On 21/01/12 23:57, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 01/18/2012 10:53 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> You can look at http://ovirt.org/wiki/Features/CloneVmFromSnapshot
>>
>> And see the feature document for Clone VM from Snapshot.
>>
>> Comments are more than welcome (planning on providing a the detailed
>> document soon)
> 
> apart from the ongoing discussion on this, my main comment is it should
> be possible to clone a VM in down state directly, without a need to
> create snapshots on it.
> 
> This is possible today by creating a template from the VM, then
> instantiating VMs from the template via thin or clone.
> Clone VM should allow to remove the need of creating a template.
> 
> Only clone would be supported of course, though  the VM is thinly
> provisioned from a template, then cloning only the thinly provisioned
> disks rather than the entire disks would be good as well)


I commented on this requirement on the other thread.
If it is ok with you let's try to have all related discussions on the
other thread for making it easy to track.


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