[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] create an image from VM for OOTB storage pool

[Aline Manera]

On 07/02/2014 11:11 AM, Sheldon wrote:
> Now OOTB ISO pool is available.
> we can copy an base image to OOTB ISO pool from VM.
>
> There will useful for when user want to create a image from an existing VM.
> User create a VM and configure this VM. He want to create several VMs
> with this VM.
>
> There are two ways for him.
> 1. use backing store
> (http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StorageVolBacking) for the
> existing img
> 2. create an base image to OOTB ISO pool from the existing VM.
> When are are snapshots on the VM base image.
> we should merge the all snapshots and the base image.
> Then he can create a template from this image.
> And create a VM from this template.
>

That is what Royce proposed in "[RFC] Create VM from image"
Some tasks were already added to 1.3 Plan: 
https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/wiki/Todo-1.3