[Users] template source always "Blank"

[Jim Kinney]

That _is_ what I did!

Hmm. Makes it an external process to track VM lineage without that data.

So use the thin-provision only to allow this tracking. And this works with
windows VMs? will test shortly.

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I'm guessing you used 'clone' (default for new server) rather than 'thinly
> provisioned' (default for new desktop).
> clone means the template disk is copied/cloned for better performance,
> rather than COW (less space).
> when the disk is cloned, there is no longer a relation to the original
> template at storage level.
>
>
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