[Kimchi-devel] [RFC]: for template cloning.

[Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital]

Sheldon, looks good your RFC.
There's an issue opened to Template cloning on github:
https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/196

Best regards,
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Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital <pvital at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 23:11 +0800, Sheldon wrote:
> template cloning: 
> 1 clone a template from template
> The user may clone a template from an existing template with different name.     
> Later he can customize some parts of the template to save the effort to create a full new template.    
> For example, he can update the network of the template cloned to have a new different template.  
> 
> 
> 2. we should also also user clone a template from vm
> I just concern the image volume.
> For vm may has no CDROM attribute. 
> Then does the template need to copy the image volume.
> For VM clone, can we make the the vm image as a backing file(or we can 
> call it base image).
> 
> Then we can create two new images for this vm and new vm.
> 
> All these two new images are a read/write snapshot of the original image,
> 
> -- any changes to new images will not be reflected in original image.
> 
> 
> http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StorageVolBacking
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot
> 
> -- 
> Thanks and best regards!
> 
> Sheldon Feng(冯少合)<shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> IBM Linux Technology Center
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