[Engine-devel] Clone VM from snapshot feature

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/26/2012 05:05 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
> On 02/26/2012 04:55 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 02/26/2012 04:38 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
>>>> Yair, what about import of VM more than once?
>>> Hi Ayal,
>>> We consider this as a different feature.
>>> Gilad Chaplik is the feature owner.
>>> I can think of some very similar features to this one (not just
>>> import
>>> more than once).
>>
>> First, I couldn't find a feature page for that.
>> Second, I don't really understand the difference, there are subtle differences in the flow, but it is basically the same.
>> In fact. the only difference I can think of is that it is initiated from import and not from right click on the snapshot...
>>
>> What other similar features will this *not* cover?
> I can tell you that for current testing until fully integrated with
> snapshots modifications, I am testing it on VM which is down.
> Not sure we're interested in this, but here is an example of possible
> feature.

I think Ayal point/question is similar to mine - why at general code 
level (obviously there are implementation differences) and user 
experience wise, the following aren't similar:
[AddVmFromBlank]
AddVmFromTemplate
AddVmFromVm
AddVmFromSnapshot
AddVmFromImportCandidate[1]


[1] yes, there is a difference if you select more than a single import 
candidate (adding multiple VMs), but that's actually at UI level, not 
backend implementation.